This week
cover
The “epidemic” of teen
e-cigarette use ............................... 10
CBD in skin care products ............. 14
A walk across the U.S.
for health care ................................ 16

ealth and beauty is all about the
internal and external factors that
affect your life, whether it’s physical
or mental. What you put in your body, on
your body, and how you deal with things
upstairs matters. This year’s annual Health
and Beauty issue covers the “epidemic” of
VAPES FOR
electronic cigarette use among teens and what
DAYS Health and
school officials
some people are trying to do about it [10] ;
believe that the
the lowdown on using skin care products with
proliferation of
e-cigarettes
CBD [14] ; and one man’s quest dedicated to
is negating
the last few
health care for all [16] ;
decades’ worth
This week, you can also read about the
of prevention
work targeted
myriad local workers who are affected by the
at reducing teen
government shutdown [4] ; how movement
nicotine use.
inspires and sometimes participates in the
creative process [39] ; the SLO County
Library kits that there’s a waiting list for [40] ; and your next
favorite neighborhood bar [45] .

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Government shutdown
hits SLO County
A
s the shutdown of the federal government
reached 32 days with no end in sight,
local government agencies and nonprofits
are bracing for the long-term impacts.
“It’s unprecedented on many levels,” Kevin
Bumen, SLO County’s director of airports, said.
Like the nation’s other airports, the shutdown
affects both Transportation and Security
Administration (TSA) employees and air traffic
controllers at the SLO County Regional Airport.
Bumen said that operations at the airport
have remained unaffected thus far. Its air
traffic controllers are employed under a federal
contract that that is funded through February,
and despite reports of record absences of TSA
screeners at airports across the country, Bumen
said the absence rate for TSA employees at
the SLO County Airport was “at or below” its
historic average.
Still, Bumen noted that the further impacts
were uncertain as the shutdown continues.
“There’s just a lot of questions out there,” he
said.
Just 26 miles north of the airport, members of
the U.S. Coast Guard in Morro Bay, along with
42,000 of their peers across the country, have
gone without pay since December. Central Coast
Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) visited
Morro Bay’s Coast Guard station on Jan. 19 to
speak with members.
“It is shameful that the men and women
serving their country to keep us safe are being
forced to work without getting a paycheck,”
Carbajal, who is forgoing his own pay in
solidarity with federal workers, said in a written
statement.
Cambria resident Jim Mang created a
GoFundMe campaign to collect money to help
local Coast Guard members. As of Jan. 23, the

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EMPLOYED BUT NOT PAID TSA Employees at the SLO County Regional Airport are just a few
of the many federal workers who have worked without pay due to the partial government shutdown,
which entered its fifth week.

campaign had raised $3,565 of its $100,000
goal.
Some SLO County nonprofits are also feeling
the squeeze during the shutdown. Peoples’ SelfHelp Housing, a nonprofit that helps provide
housing for more than 5,000 low-income families
on the Central Coast, is already dipping into its
own funds to make up for a loss in government
housing subsidies that dried up due to the
shutdown. Peoples’ Self-Help President John
Fowler said the organization has been spending
an estimated $100,000 a week, nearly $500,000
in total so far, to make up for the loss of federal
funds because of the shutdown and to keep
residents in their homes.

“Clearly that’s not money that these families
have,” Fowler said. “We are the safety net.”
Fowler said the organization began to prepare
for the shutdown before it occurred and can
operate fairly comfortably through February,
but beyond that, it will have to begin making
some “hard calls.”
Those tough calls will not include kicking
people out of their homes, Fowler said.
“We are not going to evict families because
of the government shutdown,” he said. “We are
going to do everything we can to protect these
vulnerable families on the Central Coast.” Δ
—Chris McGuinness

Lucia Mar could
increase the price
of school lunches

the proposal.
Chad Robertson, president of the district
board of education, said his main concern is the
financial stability of the program.
“I think we need to make sure the department
stays whole, and the last thing we would want to
do is increase, even though it’s so nominal, but
increase the cost to students if we can avoid it at
all,” Robertson said.
According to district staff, there is a
possibility that the Food Services department’s
budget could encroach upon the district’s
general fund next year.
School meals have changed dramatically over
the last two years as the department has shifted
its focus to serving locally sourced and freshly
prepared foods. It’s partnered with local farms
and producers, including Mallard Lake Ranch,
Green Gold Organic Farms, and Edna’s Bakery.
The cost of food has increased by 30 percent
since the 2009-10 fiscal year, and there has been
a 10 percent salary increase since the 2012-13
fiscal year.
“It takes healthy bellies for healthy minds to
produce healthy results, and it’s a fact, healthy
food is expensive,” Robertson said.

Lucia Mar Unified School District’s Food
Services department is proposing to raise the
price of school meals almost a decade after its
last increase.
During a report presented at the Jan. 22
district board meeting, Director of Food Services
Laurel Goins said the switch to locally sourced
foods, an increase in labor costs, and the need to
repair and replace equipment is increasing the
department’s costs.
“We’ve moved away from pressed and shaped
meats, so chicken nuggets are out and chicken
strips are in. Identifiable things is our goal,”
Goins said.
The proposal includes increasing the cost of
breakfast by 50 cents, raising the price from
$1.50 to $2.00.
Lunch would increase by 25 cents—
elementary school lunch will go from $2.50 to
$2.75, middle school will increase from $2.75 to
$3, and high school would increase from $3 to
$3.25. Students who participate in the free and
reduced lunch programs will not be affected by

The board moved to accept the report
and bring it back for consideration with
more information about its financial
standing.
—Karen Garcia

Go-karts, mini golf
coming to El Chorro
Park this summer

While golfers lament the recent
loss of nine holes at Dairy Creek Golf
Course, families can look forward to new
activities, like go-karting and miniature
golf, at El Chorro Regional Park.
SLO County officials are in the process
of obtaining permits and bids for a new
electric go-kart racing track and 18-hole
miniature golf course at the park off of
Highway 1.
SLO County Parks and Recreation
Director Nick Franco told New Times
that he expects the facilities to open this
summer.
“Miniature golf will be a designed
course of 18 holes with cows, windmills—
the Dairy Creek theme,” Franco said.
Both projects are key pieces to the
county’s reinvention of El Chorro Park,
which was spurred by a water crisis
at the Dairy Creek Golf Course. Dairy
Creek, which draws water from the
neighboring California Men’s Colony, saw
a dramatic reduction in its allocation due
to a declining prison population. That
shortage forced the county to close nine
holes of the course in May 2018.
Years of decline in the course’s
condition led to a reduction in play as well
as major financial issues for the county.
The county golf fund currently draws
about $485,000 annually from the general
fund to stay afloat.
“We were faced with a financial issue,”
Franco said. “Our challenge was what
services are not provided in this area,
that are still parks and recreation,
that can generate revenue? Two of the
low-hanging fruit were go-karts and
miniature golf.”
The go-kart track and miniature golf
course will be located in an area just
south of the golf clubhouse. Other new
activities planned for the park include
a Toptracer Range (a simulated driving
range), batting cages, a mountain bike
course, a disc golf course, and cabin
camping sites.
Franco said the hope is that the park
will be more inclusive to the community
and financially sustainable. He noted that

Dairy Creek playership has recovered
since they downsized the course.
“Since we’ve gone to nine holes and
have been able to keep it green, our
rounds have reached the same levels we
had a few years before,” he said. “The
ultimate goal is to need no assistance
[from the general fund].”
—Peter Johnson

Morro Bay verifies
Proposition 218
protest votes
The city of Morro Bay says that
uncounted Proposition 218 protest votes
would still not have been enough to
change the outcome of the September
2018 vote to increase water and sewer
rates.
On Jan. 17, the city released the results
of the verification and tabulation of all
written protests related to the water
reclamation facility water and sewer
rate hike on its website. According to

the staff report, of the approximately
1,000 protests that were not counted by
the city in 2018, 272 were new votes, 665
were duplicates, 70 were invalid, and 62
required further verification.
The city initially declined to count
the approximately 1,000 protest votes
because they were either undated or
marked with a date that was prior to
the public notice of the proposed rate
increase—disqualifying them. Residents
who opposed the city’s water reclamation
project threatened the city’s refusal with
legal action in October 2018.
Previously, the city counted 1,560
protest votes. The 272 newly validated,
but still uncounted, protest votes were
not enough to bring the total up to the
2,794 votes that would have been needed
to prohibit the council from approving the
rate hike.
City Mayor John Headding said the
tallying process took place from Dec.
17 through 20, 2018, including only city
staff. Two community members observed

the count, one who was for and one who
was against the water facility.
Headding opened the discussion to
tally the uncounted protest votes, and
the council moved to do so, even though
the result would not change the council’s
decision. Although he was at first
opposed to tallying up the lost protest
votes, Headding said, he understood the
community’s need to know the numbers.
“I do feel that in talking to a broader
contingency that I may have been
somewhat jaded in thinking of the need
of counting something that essentially
doesn’t count, but that it was important
for community members who had
expressed their voice in the form of a
written protest,” he said.
—Karen Garcia

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News

Strokes&Plugs

BY KAREN GARCIA
PHOTO COURTESY OF JAN NORTHINGTON

For every girl
O
n Saturday morning Jan. 12, the
welcome center at the El Morro
Church of the Nazarene is buzzing
with the sound of sewing machines. The
center is filled with big circular tables
where women cut fabric, measure it, sew
it, or sort it. At about six to seven stations
total, each woman plays a vital role in
making reusable hygiene kits.
Jan Northington orchestrates it all.
She’s the head of the Los Osos California
team, a chapter of the international Days
for Girls organization. The nonprofit
has teams all over the world that gather
to create washable pads for girls in
impoverished countries who do not have
access to feminine hygiene products.
Instead of supplying girls with feminine
products that will eventually run out,
the organization thought of the reusable
substitute. The teams assemble these
kits and either mails them to the Days for
Girls headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
which will send them to young females in
need, or team members can go on their
own trips to deliver the product.
In the welcome center, Northington
said, about 20 to 25 women meet every
two to three months for six hours to make
as many kits as they can. Some of the
women will take whatever doesn’t get
finished home to work on.
The kit consists of a guard that goes
on the crotch of the underwear with an
insert for a flannel liner made out of 100
percent cotton. Each kit has one guard,
eight liners, two pairs of underwear, a

washcloth, and bar or two of soap. There’s
also an instruction sheet on how to use
the guard and liners as well as a calendar
for tracking the menstruation cycle
packaged inside a drawstring backpack.
Aside from giving the reusable pads,
the girls are also given menstrual health
education.
“The whole idea is that the girls receive
education as to how their bodies work and
why they’re bleeding because in most of these
countries, they don’t know,” Northington said.
Northington has taught girls herself and
said that the international organization
gives them informational documents,
diagrams, and a large presentation board
so they can show the girls how their bodies
work, the female reproductive system and
the male’s. She also encourages the girls to
understand their self-worth.
“I have talked about, ‘You have the
right to say no,’ the right to stand up for
who you are. In so many of these places
they don’t feel like they’re worthy, but
I believe this is helping them feel more
valuable,” Northington said.
Days for Girls International has
reached more than 1 million women
and girls in more than 125 countries.
Northington found out about the
international organization’s efforts
through a trip with friends to Uganda.
“I’m an old registered nurse, retired,
but I’ve always wanted to go to Africa and
help,” she said.
During the trip, one person brought
along Days for Girls kits to distribute to

NEWS from page 6

the recent decision to move responsibility
for delivering mental and medical health
care for jail inmates from the SLO County
Health Agency to the Sheriff’s Office.
“There has to be a compliance unit to
make sure that clients’ medical records
are being respected, as well as their
diagnosis,” she said.
In addition, Kessler will also be
responsible for keeping up to date with
changes in state and federal legislation
that might impact the jail.
“We want to be proactive rather than
reactive,” she said.
Kessler will begin her new position as
compliance officer starting Feb. 10.
—Chris McGuinness

a veteran correctional deputy to help
ensure its jail is in compliance with the
myriad policies and laws that govern the
facility.
Starting next month, Correctional
Deputy Traci Kessler will begin her
duties in the newly created position of
Sheriff’s Compliance Officer. Kessler
previously worked as a correctional
deputy in the department for the last 14
years, and is also a third year law student
focusing on correctional litigation.
As compliance officer, Kessler said her
goal is to make sure department policies
meet or exceed standards mandated by
federal and state laws. The position comes
as Sheriff Ian Parkinson has instituted a
number of reforms at the jail in response
to public concern over the health and
safety of inmates.
“With all the changes [Parkinson]
is implementing in the department, he
understood that there was a need for this
position,” Kessler told New Times.
Some of the laws that Kessler will
be tasked with ensuring compliance
with at the jail include the Americans
With Disabilities Act, the Prison Rape
Elimination Act, and the Religious Land
Use and Institutionalized Persons Act,
which governs the right of inmates to
practice their religion while incarcerated.
Kessler will also oversee the jail’s
compliance with the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act, or
HIPAA, which governs the privacy of
medical records and medical information.
Kessler indicated that HIPAA compliance
was particularly important because of

Palomar project
moves forward
after ruling on
trespassing case

A 33-unit housing development in
San Luis Obispo stymied by litigation
recommenced construction after a SLO
County Superior Court judge denied a
neighbor’s request to halt the project for
trespassing.
Owners of a vacant parcel next to
the project site at 71 Palomar Ave. filed
the lawsuit in September, claiming
the developer’s construction activities
trespassed onto their small lot at 75
Palomar and ultimately would render the
lot undevelopable.
“With the advent of tiny houses, there’s
always the expectation that the parcel
would at least be available,” Roy Ogden,
the neighbor’s attorney, told New Times

WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN The Days of Girls’ Los Osos team works on
creating reusable feminine products for women and advocates for menstrual education.

girls in need. After that first experience,
she knew it was something she wanted to
bring to the Central Coast. She started it
with a friend in 2013. The following year,
the local team made 426 kits. Last year, the
team made 705 kits to distribute. She said
her team doesn’t normally send kits to the
headquarters because some of the women
like to distribute the kits themselves.
All of the kits were made possible with
community donations of 100 percent
cotton material, with the exception of a
few purchased items.
“It’s very rewarding because I see such
light bulbs go off around the world with
both women and kids who never understood
how their bodies work,” she said.

Fast fact
Tom’s Toy’s in San Luis Obispo
donated $1,000 of holiday sales to Big
Brothers Big Sisters of San Luis Obispo
County. Tom’s Toy’s owner Ted Frankel
became a Big Brother more than 40
years ago, and each December, the store
holds an annual fundraiser donating a
portion of the proceeds to Big Brothers
Big Sisters. To find out more about the
organization and its efforts or how to get
involved, visit slobigs.org. ∆
Staff Writer Karen Garcia wrote this
week’s Strokes and Plugs. Send tidbits to
kgarcia@newtimesslo.com.
PHOTO BY PETER JOHNSON

when the suit was filed.
The court initially
issued a temporary
stay on construction,
but on Nov. 14, Judge
Tana Coates denied a
request for preliminary
injunction that would’ve
extended the freeze.
Coates pointed to two
easements from 1967 and
1971 on the parcel that
allowed for much of the
construction activities.
“The easements are
not ambiguous,” Coates
wrote in the order. “The
evidence ... establishes
that the defendant
proceeded with the
development per the
terms of the easements.”
Coates was also
unconvinced of the
neighbor’s argument
that their lot could be
the future site of an
800-square-foot house.
“Plaintiff has not
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT A SLO County judge
submitted any evidence
ruled that a 33-unit project at 71 Palomar in San Luis Obispo
could continue construction, after the owners of an adjoining
that it intends to build
property (the vacant grassy area) sued for trespassing.
on 75 Palomar,” the
order reads. “Whereas
The lawsuit marks the second legal
defendant has submitted
hurdle
for 71 Palomar since the project
evidence of the cost and expenses it
was approved by the City Council.
will incur if the development does not
Neighborhood residents also lost a
proceed.”
case in 2017 challenging the project’s
Neither party in the case returned
environmental review. ∆
requests for comment from New Times
—Peter Johnson
before press time.

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SILLY RABBIT,
VAPES ARE FOR
KIDS While some
say vaping is simply
a safer alternative to
smoking burnt tobacco,
tobacco use prevention
specialists argue that
the tobacco industry is
specifically marketing to
teens. E-juice companies
like “Juicy AF” package
their products in
brightly colored boxes
reminiscent of juice
boxes, and sell flavors
that would typically
be most appealing to
children, including bubble
gum, melon candy, and
Hawaii berry.

PHOTO BY KASEY BUBNASH

Subtle inhalation

BY CAMILLIA LANHAM AND KASEY BUBNASH

Tobacco prevention specialists are worried that
electronic cigarettes are addicting a new generation to nicotine

T

he campaign against tobacco over
the last several decades has worked.
Messaging built into the public
school system’s health classes successfully
got the message across: Cigarettes are
gross. Cigarettes cause cancer.
These are phrases that San Luis Obispo
High School Principal Leslie O’Connor
said he hears from his students. So when
O’Connor sits down with a student who’s
been caught with an electronic cigarette, a
vape pen, or a pod mod, he always questions
them about traditional tobacco use.
“I ask them if they would smoke
a cigarette, and they say, ‘No that’s
disgusting,’ while I’m sitting there holding
their vape pen,” O’Connor said. “They think
it’s clean. … The messaging from these
companies is so proactive and so subtle.”
The act of vaping is also subtle. Vapes
and e-cigarettes work on essentially the
same premise as old-fashioned rolled
cigarettes—delivering nicotine quickly to
the body through inhalation—but without
the tobacco and smelly smoke that comes
with it. Pods hold a liquid called e-juice
that gets heated into vapor that users can
then inhale.
“The products are almost impossible
to detect because they look like USBs,
they look like pens. They just look like
something you’d have lying around in
your backpack,” O’Connor said.
The school has really seen an increase
in use over the last 18 months, O’Connor
said. And that use isn’t limited to high
school students. It’s also occurring on
other campuses, San Luis Coastal Unified
School District Superintendent Eric Prater
said, and in middle school. Prater said if
you ask a class full of ninth graders if they
vape or know of anyone who does, almost
every hand in the classroom shoots up.
According to the 2018 California
Healthy Kids Survey, 41 percent of
11th graders in the district had ever
tried e-cigarettes, 28 percent used them
currently, 29 percent had used them four

or more times, and 9 percent used them
daily. Prater thinks the actual numbers
are higher than that. He said students
he’s spoken with have said they believe
the percentage of students who have
tried e-cigarettes or use them somewhat
regularly is much higher as well.
“Four or more times could easily
translate into, ‘I’m doing this right now,’”
Prater said, adding that at Morro Bay
High School at least 500 students out of
the 2,300 to 2,400 students at the school
are vaping.
“And that’s what we know of,” Prater
said. “That’s a lot of kids.”
The issue isn’t isolated to San Luis
Coastal, although the numbers do vary
in school districts across the county.
Coast Unified School District has the
lowest number of vapers in the county,
according to the 2018 California Healthy

Kids Survey data, with 13 percent of 11th
graders reporting that they have vaped
four or more times. Shandon Unified
School District has the highest, with 38
percent of 11th graders and 6 percent of
seventh graders reporting that they’ve
vaped four or more times.
Although modern vapes and
e-cigarettes have existed for more
than a decade, improved technology,
a wider range of flavors (about 7,000plus flavors, according to Prater), and
increasingly sleek devices have made
vaping popular among teens in recent
years. It’s become so common that the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
said in a September 2018 press release
that the trend had reached “an epidemic
proportion,” and announced a major
enforcement operation aimed at reducing
sales of e-cigarettes to minors.
While some say vapes simply
PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM
provide a safer alternative to the
deadly carcinogens and tar that come
with burning tobacco, tobacco use
prevention specialists worry that the
devices are getting a new generation
addicted to nicotine, unraveling
decades of prevention work on the
federal, state, and local levels.
“It worries me, and quite frankly
I see corporate manipulation,” Prater
said. “It’s very clever and it’s been
marketed to take advantage of our
youth. I’m not only concerned. I’m
upset about it.”

‘It’s not cuul
to JUUL in schuul’

SIGN OF THE TIMES San Luis Obispo High
School recently started putting signs like these
in the bathrooms as part of an effort to deter
students from using electronic cigarettes.

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Until only recently, Lompoc
resident Mustafa Fhaies smoked two
packs of cigarettes nearly every day.
Eventually he grew tired of the most
common side effects of smoking—his
hair and clothes constantly reeked of
tobacco smoke, he struggled to sleep,
and he suffered lengthy and intense

Youth vaping
at a glance

• E-cigarette use rose significantly among U.S.
middle and high school students between 2011
and 2017. While only 1.5 percent of high school
and 0.6 percent of middle school students
reported using e-cigarettes in the 2011 National
Youth Tobacco Survey, the 2017 survey found
that 11.7 percent of high school and 3.3 percent
of middle school students had used e-cigs within
the last 30 days before taking the survey.
• While more than 98 percent of all e-cigarette
products contain nicotine, roughly 60 percent of
U.S. teens surveyed in a 2015 study incorrectly
reported that e-cigarettes were mostly composed
of flavoring.
• Unlike traditional cigarettes and other tobacco
products, e-cigarettes can be advertised on
television and radio.
• One brand of e-cigarette, JUUL, has become
increasingly popular since its launch in 2015.
JUUL’s unit sales increased by more than 600
percent in 2017, and its sales now represent
more than 70 percent of the e-cig market share.
DATA COURTESY OF
TRUTH INITIATIVE AND THE CAMPAIGN
FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS

coughing fits almost every morning.
He switched to vaping JUULs, a still
relatively new but extremely popular
brand of e-cigarette, and Fhaies said
the severity of his symptoms soon
diminished. They haven’t returned.
“I feel way better,” he said. “Now I can’t
even stand the smell of cigarettes.”
So Fhaies said he can see why vapes in
general, and especially JUULs, are such
hot ticket items at each of his four tobacco
and vape shops in Lompoc, Santa Maria,
San Luis Obispo, and Santa Cruz County.
Fhaies said that while his tobacco sales
have dropped off in recent years, vape and
e-cigarette sales are only increasing. His
vape-related sales nearly doubled in 2018,
and he said JUUL is one of his best sellers.
While the advent of vape culture has
been great for his bottom line, Fhaies said
he has to be careful.
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“We get a lot of minors trying to buy,”
he said. “A lot. Especially in San Luis and
Santa Maria.”
Other sellers aren’t as careful as Fhaies.
Inger Appanaitis, SLO County’s Tobacco
Control Program manager, said that 12
percent of the licensed tobacco retailers
in the incorporated areas of the county
violated rules regulating age requirements
for the sale of tobacco in 2018.
E-cigarette use rose significantly
among U.S. middle and high school
students between 2011 and 2017,
according to data collected by the Truth
Initiative. While only 1.5 percent of high
school and 0.6 percent of middle school
students reported using e-cigarettes in a
2011 National Youth Tobacco Survey, 11.7
percent of high school and 3.3 percent of
middle school students reported using
e-cigarettes in 2017.
The 2018 National Youth Tobacco
Survey shows an even more dramatic
situation. The number of U.S. high school
students who reported being current
e-cigarette users increased by 78 percent
between 2017 and 2018. Numbers among
middle school students rose by 48 percent.
“All the progress we’ve made in
decreasing tobacco use over the last
20 or 30 years with traditional tobacco
products has basically been negated with
e-cigarettes,” Appanaitis said. “Students
don’t really understand, 1, what nicotine
is, and, 2, how addictive it is.”
Health officials are just now starting to
understand the depth of the situation and
looking at the health effects of electronic

tobacco products. Appanaitis said that
schools, parents, local governments, and
law enforcement are struggling to catch
up with how fast vaping devices have
proliferated into youth culture. The health
department is doing things such as holding
health education workshops with adults
and working with some schools on a caseby-case basis to educate teachers and
students. Schools are trying to figure out
the best way to supplement the curriculum
they already use for traditional tobacco
products to include the new technology.
“School curriculums have been developed
over decades to talk about the traditional
dangers of tobacco smoke,” she said. “It’s our
jobs to know about these devices, and we’re
still trying to catch up with how quickly
these devices have come on.”

Catching up

It’s an issue parents, teachers,
and law enforcement agencies
across the nation are working to
address, and a pattern many feel is
no accident.
With wide ranging fruity flavors
sold in brightly colored boxes,
youth-centered ads on social media,
and easy-to-hide techy designs,
e-cigarette manufacturers have
been widely accused of purposely
targeting teens.
After the FDA announced its plans
to tighten restrictions on e-cigarette
manufacturers in September, the
agency gave companies like JUUL,
Blu, and Logic 60 days to develop
plans to keep their products away

from teens.
On Nov. 13, JUUL announced it would
stop selling most of its flavored e-juice
pods in stores and discontinue its social
media promotions. Two days later, the
FDA announced plans to officially ban
most e-cigarette flavors, flavored cigars,
and menthol cigarettes.
“JUUL Labs shares a common goal
with the Surgeon General and other
federal health regulators—preventing
youth from initiating on nicotine,”
a company spokesperson said in an
emailed statement to New Times. “We are
committed to preventing youth access of
JUUL products. … As we said before, our
intent was never to have youth use JUUL
products. We have taken dramatic action
to contribute to solve this problem.”
On Nov. 15, FDA Commissioner Scott
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forms of electronic cigarettes are being taken from
students on a regular basis at schools like SLO
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rise thanks to the proliferation of the devices.

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curbing teen use of e-cigarettes, including age
restrictions on stores that can sell flavored
e-cigarette products as well as the way
those products are advertised. In December,
Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham
(R-SLO) introduced a bill into the state
Legislature that would limit the way that
e-cigarette manufacturers are allowed
to advertise their products. Although it’s
similar to the FDA’s proposed regulations,
Cunningham said there is no guarantee that
those rules will become law anytime soon or
that they will survive legal challenges.
The bill would ban e-cigarette and
e-juice marketing toward children
and make it illegal for manufacturers
to package products in a way that is
appealing to youth, and it’s modeled
after similar regulations the tobacco and
cannabis industries already adhere to.
Features like cartoons, bright colors, and
candy-themed flavors would no longer be
allowed in e-cig ads or on packages.
“There is a need for California to lead the
way and set our own standards through
democratically elected legislation rather
than bureaucratic mandate,” Cunningham
said in an emailed response to questions.
“Locally, teachers, parents, and even my
own middle-school aged kids have told
me that more and more kids are using
these products. For the long-term health
of our children, it’s absolutely critical
that California lead the way and prohibit
these e-cigarette companies from overtly
marketing their products to kids.” Δ
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In addition to her
all-natural and
CBD products,
Blanco uses a
jade roller and
Gua Sha tools to
further enhance
the oils and
creams applied
to the face.

BY KAREN GARCIA

Eliminate the chemicals in everyday makeup and
skin care with natural and CBD products

J

essica Blanco, the owner of Central
Coast Beauties, vividly remembers
her abuelita (grandmother) creating
homemade ointments and salves for the
family with organic ingredients.
“If you got a cut or a burn she would go
get a fresh aloe leaf from the backyard
for you,” Blanco said of the woman who
raised her in the Bay Area.
She also remembers a rub that her
abuelita would use to relieve her body
of aches when she had a fever—it was a
mixture of alcohol infused cannabis.
“I realize now that cannabis was
going to end up in my future regardless,
because she used to rub our bodies where
we felt discomfort with this secret remedy,
and it helped,” she said.
Blanco’s abuelita has since passed
away, but constantly using herbs and
home remedies during her upbringing
gave Blanco an appreciation for an
organic and holistic approach to caring for
the body. But this ideology wouldn’t really
become Blanco’s career focus until she
took a deeper look into the products she
used on her face after she was diagnosed
with an autoimmune disease.

her to start over with makeup and skin
products.
“You really have to take the time and
do your own research to find clean and
natural products, because it could say
organic on the label but you have to read
the ingredients,” she said.
As Blanco discovered natural products
that were less harmful to her skin, she
also started experiencing body aches
and pain. She was diagnosed with an
autoimmune disease that was making it
difficult for her to work. Abuelita’s remedy
came to mind and Blanco started looking
into CBD products to manage the pain.
In her research, she discovered
Cannabliss, an organic cannabis infused
skincare line. It has products such as a
cleanser, moisturizer, and body oil. The
benefits of having cannabis in skincare
products, she learned, is that it can work
as an anti-inflammatory component. The
plus, for Blanco, was the fact that most
products from the company contained
fewer than 10 ingredients.
“My biggest rule is it should have less
than 10 ingredients, at least, and if I can’t
pronounce it, I don’t want it,” she said.

Fine print

Fresh out of beauty school, Blanco
started her career as a makeup artist at
MAC cosmetics. She learned a lot through
that experience, but she said she started
noticing that some clients would come in
with inflammation, acne, or irritation on
their face because of the products they
were using.
Other than the laundry list of ingredients
in one product, what stood out to her the
most were the chemicals found in a typical
moisturizer, blush, or concealer.
Blanco said a typical beauty product
could contain sodium lauryl sulfate,
polyethylene, or parabens. These
chemicals can be found in makeup, face
wash, scrubs, and exfoliates. She also
said that federal law does not require
companies to list the chemicals used in
their fragrance mixture on product labels.
It got her thinking about what she was
applying to her face, and it was enough for

She tried the Cannabliss products as
part of her skin care routine and facials.
Blanco instantly knew that this was a
product she could get behind for herself
and others.
With all of these tools in her pocket,
the next step for Blanco was to share
her information about CBD and local
organic makeup and skin care products
with other women. She joined the Mission
Community Services Corporation
Women’s Business Center to learn about
creating her own business—a studio
where she could not only showcase a
few of her preferred products but offer
makeup and organic facial services.

Home away from home

WHOLE BODY Jessica Blanco focuses on
natural products, her client’s diet, and their
everyday routine to fully care for their skin.

It’s hard to miss Blanco’s studio,
Central Coast Beauties, on Grand Avenue
in Grover Beach. The studio is part of a
plaza with a few other businesses, but the
gold palm tree leaves on the window give
the studio away.
Upon entering, Blanco is ready to greet
you with a hug, something that’s pretty
instinctual for her. She’s prepared to not
only speak passionately with clients about
their skin, but connect and learn more
about them. It’s not just about what goes
on the skin, Blanco said, it’s also about
diet, illnesses people have, and stress,
among other things.
“I just want people to walk in and
instantly feel warm and welcomed,” she said.
“I’m hoping it feels cozy and like a getaway.”

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With more than 10 years of experience
in the beauty industry, Blanco opened her
studio in March of last year. Her services
include organic facials (with or without
CBD products), body treatments, event
makeup, and makeup consultations.
Each client starts with a questionnaire so
Blanco can understand where the skin on
your face might need a little more attention.
On her massage table—the lights are
dim and your choice of music floats in the
background—she begins with a gentle
steam. Each facial is different, as it’s
customized to the client and their needs.
Blanco makes sure to tell you the product
she’s going to apply and why it’s beneficial
to your specific skin.
Between the sweet aromas, the electric
fireplace, and soothing products, Blanco
has created a space for more than just
a facial. It’s a place for her to share her
love of clean beauty products and services
with others—although she’s not opposed
to meeting with clients in their homes. It’s
also a place for her to support other local
businesses and female business owners. Δ
Staff Writer Karen Garcia can be reached
at kgarcia@newtimesslo.com.

After beating cancer, Ben Walther walked from
California to Delaware and biked home

I

n these tumultuous times, what if you
could traverse the entire United States?
Not in a RV. Not in a converted van. On
foot. One after the other.
Ben Walther doesn’t have to imagine
it. He actually did it. Between May and
November 2017, the Arroyo Grande native
walked 3,600 miles from San Francisco
to Lewes, Delaware, just a few years
after he overcame lymphoma. Then a few
months later, he biked all the way home.
Among his goals was to bring awareness
to the issue of universal health care.
He documented his journey on a blog at
facebook.com/myownmomentum.
New Times sat down with Walther to
ask him why and how he made the trek
and what he learned along the way. What
follows was edited for length and flow.

New Times: You found out you had
cancer in 2013. What was that like and
how did it lead you to decide to walk
across the country?
Ben Walther: I was 27 and I was having
some trouble breathing. I eventually went
to hospital and they were like, “We’re 90
percent sure you have lymphoma.” It’s
such a kick in the gut realizing your life
has turned over in that split second. It
blows your world into pieces and you kind
of have to put it back together. I took some
time off and did the treatment, about
eight months of chemo and three months
of radiation. What’s funny was getting
through the cancer and the treatment was
actually pretty easy. What was way more
challenging was after I got through with
it. Cancer really condenses life to how
am I going to get through this week, or
this day? It really narrowed my horizons.
I had about two years after where I was
just working a crummy job and making
a lot of self-destructive decisions. I was
out hiking one day and was like, “I’m
miserable. I’m really out of shape. I’ve
been given this gift of having my life
continue and I’m really squandering it.”
There was this ephemeral thought of, “I
should walk across the country.” That was
on April 1, 2017, and on May 1 I left from
Lands End in San Francisco.
NT: Did you ever think about turning
around?
BW: Probably the wildest part was either
the Great Basin Desert of Nevada and
Utah or the Great Plains. The Sierras
and the Rockies were so majestic that
it was easy to stay engaged. Out in the
desert or the plains ... just put a picture of
cornfields in front of you and stare at that
for a month straight. That’s way tougher.
But once I started, I never thought I’d
turn around. And that’s out of character
for me. It was pretty life-changing to have
that experience.
BW: What was your sleeping situation
like?
NT: Pretty much everything a mountain
backpacker would have, I had. Through
the West, it was a lot of Bureau of Land
Management land, so I’d just get 100 feet

off the road, pitch my tent, and call it
good. Once you get over the Rockies, so
much of it is private property. There were
definitely a lot of roadside ditches and
cornfields.
NT: What’d you do about supplies and
water?
BW: When I was going across the desert
I was pushing a little three-wheel baby
carriage with gallon water jugs. From the
Nevada border to Delta, Utah, that was
119 miles of no services, no houses, no
nothing. That got me through that stretch
of about five days. I walked about 20 miles
a day on average.
NT: Was that scary?
BW: Not at all. The best training is doing
it. By the time I got to the desert and
these more challenging areas, I was ready
for it. The hardest part is convincing
yourself you can do it. If you have that
confidence, chances are you can do it.
NT: You walked in support of single-payer
health care. Why?
BW: Medicaid saved my life. Right
before my diagnosis, the first mandatory
Obamacare sign-up came around. They
were like, ‘Do you know you qualify for
Medicaid?’ I was putting off going to the
hospital because I knew how much it was
going to cost to get a good diagnostic. So
[with Medicaid] I knew that I could go
and not go bankrupt. Going for two days
was over $42,000, and it really struck
me that I was so fortunate to have just
threaded that needle. In my opinion,
there’s such a better way of handling it,
looking at places like Canada or France
or all of the Scandinavian countries. A
huge part of health care costs in America
is administrative. If you can cut that out
and have one system instead of hundreds,
you’re actually saving money while
providing better and more coverage. So I
did a fundraiser for Physicians for National
Health Program, which is an advocacy
group for single-payer health care, and
raised about $2,000 for them. I talked to a
lot of people about how health care expenses
have impacted them. It’s something that
really affects a ton of people.
NT: So you struck up conversations with
people as you walked?
BW: One of the coolest things was being
exposed to the world. It was one of the big
reasons why I did it. In the 2016 election
we heard so much about bubbles. But
it was always the “others” are in their
bubbles. It was really realizing that if
the Central Coast isn’t a bubble, then I
don’t know what the hell is. I’m pretty
well educated, pretty well read, but I don’t
really know anything about the world.
I wanted to go out there and see it with
my own eyes. The regional differences in
America are so real and very valid.
NT: How did the experience shift your
perspective on the regional and political
divides in America?

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HALFWAY Arroyo Grande’s Ben Walther
walked 3,600 miles across the country in 2017
after surviving cancer. Here he is near Lebanon,
Kansas, at the geographical center of the U.S.

BW: It was incredibly humanizing. There
was this one guy who was like Hagrid
from Harry Potter—big beard, big hair,
a road worker in the middle of Kansas.
He put me up for the night. He was one of
the most amazing, kind, generous people
I’ve honestly ever met. Then I was leaving
and I noticed he was flying the stars and
bars [Confederate flag] out in front of
his house. It’s like, on the one hand as a
human being, you’re amazing. In terms
of your ideology, you’re wrong. I met this
other dude in Kansas. I ran out of water
so he gave me a ride into town. He was a
very rough individual and talked about
how he was super pro-Trump, and what
he really appreciated was that he was a
no-bullshit kind of guy. He talked about
when he was growing up, if you have
a problem with somebody you take it
out back, you throw down, and whoever
wins is in the right, and that guy helps
the other guy up and you move on with
your lives. I could kind of understand
that. I don’t agree with that, that’s not
how I go through my life, but it’s about
understanding where people are coming
from. Going through the Rust Belt, I saw
these towns that are like falling apart,
especially with the opioid epidemic, where
there are so many people out of work. I
just saw the immense suffering that’s
happening. It’s not like we don’t have it
here, but we don’t have it to any degree
they have it there. For a lot of people it is
survival. When that’s what’s on the line,
it’s very black and white. The person who
just keeps saying, “I’m going to make

sure you’ll survive,” that’s who you’re
going to go to to the exclusion of all else.
It definitely didn’t change my mind in any
way, but I definitely understood it a lot
more.
NT: What was that moment like when
you made it to Delaware?
BW: I was expecting to be super hyped
and giddy, but I don’t think I’d been
calmer in my entire life. What kept going
through my head was just the idea that
this isn’t the end. When I put my feet
in the ocean—that’s not the end of the
journey. The end of the journey is when
they put me in the ground. That was one
of the most meaningful things to me.
NT: How did you decide to bike home?
BW: My original plan was to see if I could
find a job over there and start a life. But
I didn’t really find anything and so I rode
my bike from St. Augustine, Florida, to
San Diego and then up to SLO, pretty
much along the Gulf Coast. In a lot of
ways that was much more fun. Doing the
walk was kind of like a job, where this
was my treat to myself.
NT: Now that you’re home, where does
this experience take you?
BW: What I’m aiming to do is get into
bike tours for a living. I also want to start
volunteering my time to go on bike rides
with people who are either in treatment
for cancer or are done (see facebook.com/
WALTHER continued page 17

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEN WALTHERS

Who’s in
Your Heart?

TWO WHEELS HOME After
walking from San Francisco to
Delaware, Ben Walther biked
back to SLO along the Gulf
Coast. Walther hopes to start
leading therapeutic bike rides
for people in cancer treatment.

WALTHER from page 16

ourmomentum). I’m trying to find a way
to integrate it into my life.
NT: How do you respond to people who
hear about what you did and say, “I’d love
to do that but I can’t”?
BW: I met so many people who that was
their response. When I started, I was way
overweight. I’d never been backpacking.

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BY ROBERT “RED” DAVIS

Help when it’s needed
The Coast Guardsmen in Morro Bay need you, now

S

omething’s wrong when three strongwilled personalities have the ability
to shut down an entire government
and throw the world’s strongest economy
into disarray. Sure, democracy is a
messy way to run a country, and sure,
Americans will always do the right thing
after they’ve tried everything else. But
this? Our government leaders tell 800,000
employees that they’re not going to be
paid? And more than half of them are
being told to work anyway? Is this the
American dream?
I’m going to drill down through those
420,000 people who are being told to work
without pay to one particular instance,
right here in San Luis Obispo County—
the United States Coast Guard Motor
Lifeboat Station in Morro Bay.
Here we have 30 young men with two
boats, patrolling and guarding 350 miles
of California coastline from Monterey to
the Channel Islands. They work around
the clock in a building too small to house
and feed them, and so they are given
allowances to buy food and housing on the
local economy.
Usually. But not now.
The United States government is
withholding their pay, their food, their
shelter. They’re not even getting money to
buy gasoline to drive to work. And it’s not
just the guardsmen—more than half of
these young men are married with wives
and children.
What is the real-world effect on these
young men and their families? They
struggle to pay their rent or mortgage.

HODIN

And if they miss a payment, or are
evicted, that’s a credit hit that follows
them for years. Their school-age children
go on the free lunch program. Stress at
home rears its head. Wives struggle to
make ends meet. And this carries over to
work. When you report for duty, you have
to be mission-ready, and that’s hard when
your family is suffering and worrying
about their next meal.
My colleague, City Councilmember
Dawn Addis, and I are working with
Station Commander Senior Chief
Boatswain’s Mate Timothy Crochet and
his executive officer, Kacy Jones.
Chief Crochet wants first to assure
everyone that the station is fully
operational. They have funds appropriated
to continue to protect lives and property
and provide national security.
His entire force of 30 men, however,
is receiving nothing for basic living
expenses. More than half of his
contingent has families living here. The
guardsmen are receiving no salary and
nothing to pay for food, housing, gasoline,
or any normal living expenses. One young
man enlisted in the Coast Guard 2 1/2
months ago, and has now served without
pay for half of his career.
By the end of this month, that will become
critical, especially for younger troops who
have not had time to build up savings.
And here is where real America is
revealing itself—people in the community
are raising money, donating food, giving
gift cards. Morro Bay Rotary Club donated
$1,000 worth of gift cards. Jim Mang in

Russell Hodin

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Cambria set up a GoFundMe account and
has collected more than $2,000 so far.
Countless individuals are knocking
at the door of the station and bringing
groceries. Morro Bay’s three safety
departments—fire, police and harbor—
donated $600. Cambria American Legion
is providing free dinners to guardsmen
and their families. Paul Worsham,
president of SLO Veterans Service
Collaborative, is mobilizing support
from local American Legion posts. Kevin
Drabinski has his food bank trucks
ready to roll the minute he’s asked. From
assisting with Wi-Fi to delivering a
boatload of toilet paper, local businesses
are stepping up.
But the real need is for money. That’s
what pays the rent, the mortgage, the
everyday necessities for running a
household, such as money to buy laundry
soap so the men can wash their uniforms.
Coast Guard Mutual Assistance is
stretched thin. At this time, it’s able to
make a one-time interest-free loan of
$1,000 to families and $750 to individuals.
That’s appreciated, but it doesn’t go
very far.
The Coast Guard is not allowed to
receive donations of money, but the Chief
Petty Officers Association (CPOA) can
accept cash or checks. Chief Crochet
is able to access the CPOA fund and
disperse it as he deems necessary, with a
full accounting of transactions.
As part of my support for our Coast
Guard, I am pledging my city salary to
the CPOA fund until Coast Guard pay
and allowances are restored. It’s not
much—the city pays me $106 a week—but

I am donating all of it to the fund.
Chief Crochet wants everyone to know
that he appreciates the huge community
support that his men are receiving, and
they all send a big thank you to everyone.
But first and foremost, they remain
mission-ready, supporting and protecting
the United States. Let’s all of us step
forward and support and protect them. ∆
Robert “Red” Davis is a Morro Bay City
Council member. Send comments through
the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com or
write a letter for publication and email it
to letters@newtimesslo.com.

Letters
To march or
not to march

In January 2016, I joined my mom,
cousins, and a couple of friends to
do a march. I had never done this
marching thing before, and I had
little understanding of why I was
marching at all. I knew we were mad
at the sudden sanction of misogynistic,
racist, hypocritical, and altogether
hurtful rhetoric. We felt betrayed by
“democracy”—the word we all so proudly
promote across dinner table discussions.
And most of all we felt fear for the
unknown. I remember weighing just how
fast hard-fought equalities could diminish
in four years. Yet, how could marching
solve such things? I understood it only as
a source of solace for the whopping crowds
of like-minded progressives, Trump
haters, marginalized peoples, and simply
concerned individuals like myself—a
safe place to remind ourselves that other
people are unhappy, too.
LETTERS continued page 19

Opinion
LETTERS from page 18

Then we arrived, and my unhappy-yetcomplacent state of mind was consumed,
convulsed, and spit out by a massive
snowstorm of angry chants, pussy-hats,
inspiring stories, and heartfelt speeches.
The unhappiness was shaken out of me,
and with it the complacency; I was left
with a weird sort of excitement, the sort of
excitement I imagine you’d feel once being
spit out of a snowstorm and realizing
how blessed you are to be alive. That
feeling was accompanied by the somewhat
frightening realization that you should
probably do something extraordinarily
meaningful with your life. Thus, I decided
to be complacent no more.
But then I returned home and awoke
the next day to the same country, the
same demeaning rhetoric, and the
same subconscious fear that I might
have to look into colleges in Canada. I
remembered that marching through the
streets, however internally life-changing
it may be, rarely achieves tangible
progress (or at least progress in the
sense that I understood it), and it felt like
waking up to a puddle of cold drool. How
was I supposed to be non-complacent if
the structure of government, society, and
my age required me to be complacent?
Three years later, though, I still grapple
with this question on a daily basis. I do
believe there are very tangible things that
happen when you march.
For one, when I march I feel connected

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with the community, and I learn from
fellow marchers. I am reminded that
everyone has their own reason for
marching—everyone has their own story.
Therefore we are not reinforcing one
another’s beliefs, but rather by learning
each other’s stories, we can better
understand and make informed decisions.
Secondly, when I march I can make
myself known and share my own story.
I can empower myself by contributing to
something larger, and I can assert my
17-year-old perspective into the world of
important adult decisions. When I march
I am not hiding behind the internet or
some angry blog, but step by step, I am
showing the world that I care. Lastly,
when I march, I am reminded that I have
power, and when I am consumed by a
mass of marchers, I am reminded by the
words of Women’s March SLO founder
Dawn Addis, that “no one has more power
than me.”
Audrey McClish
Morro Bay

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In response to Mr. Sanville’s opinion
piece in New Times’ Jan. 17 edition
(“Wanting pain to go away isn’t a crime”),
yes, there are many legitimate needs
for pain medications that I do not think
many providers in today’s “ultra-sensitiveto-addiction” world consider when clients
come to them for treatment of legitimate
chronic pain. There are those who abuse

narcotic drugs, but with the new CURES
tracking computer system in place in
California, those individuals can now be
tracked and legitimately told “no.” But
for many, chronic pain day in and day out
wears an individual down and often leads
to even worse outcomes for the patient.
As over-prescribing pain medication
is addressed in our communities and in
our state, the individual with chronic
pain who has shown a history of need
should not be punished for their pain
because doctors are afraid of sanctions for
prescribing pain medications to treat a
legitimate need. Nor should the individual
be stigmatized by society. Bravo Mr.
Sanville for making a valid point often
overlooked in our zeal to correct a problem
we created.
Dr. Joanne Smith
Morro Bay

Let’s start
a women’s parade
So there is another “women’s march”
happening in SLO. Hey, I love women! I
asked my wife what it is all about. She
said there is no real message except they
hate Trump.
Well, my idea instead of a march is
to make it a parade! We have Cal Poly,
which has won several awards for their
floats. Yes, right here in our hometown!
After viewing recent marches, including
those back in Washington, D.C., where
women were wearing hats that represent
a woman’s body part, it seems like Cal
Poly could build a huge vagina float. We
could have Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell,
and even Babby Cakes (Barbra Streisand)
riding on it.
Then, instead of a march, everyone
could call it a parade. I mean who doesn’t
love a parade? We have them for the
Fourth of July, New Year’s, Thanksgiving,
etc. You all do know that Reader’s Digest
named SLO one of the four happiest
cities on earth. Yes, San Luis Obispo was
named with Monterrey, Mexico; Århus,
Denmark; and Singapore! Now that is
something to celebrate. Not to mention
Oprah Winfrey’s shout-out about our
hometown.
SLO Chamber of Commerce, are
you listening? I bet you could even get
Diamond Adult World to sponsor it.
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More to do
I
rejoice in the rain, but not everyone
has the luxury to appreciate the
much-needed wet weather. I’m
thinking again of our homeless citizens,
who may have nothing more than a sheet
or overpass to keep them dry.
I still see the young woman I met last
year camped out near the creek. She spoke
to me from beneath a tarp strung about
3 feet above the ground. She was three
months pregnant. Where are she and her
baby now? Are they dry? Safe?
Last spring, 40 Prado had not yet
opened. With the image of this woman in
mind, I decided to take a look at the new
facility and see how it is helping alleviate
homelessness in San Luis Obispo.
Mychael Castillo, homeless services
director at 40 Prado, eagerly showed me
around. Wow. I had read about it but seeing
the facility in person was a revelation.
Especially compared to the inadequate old
spaces at the Maxine Lewis Shelter and
Prado Day Center, where clients had to walk
across town to take advantage of day and
night services, 40 Prado is transformative.
“We have 122 beds, including 56 in
the men’s dorm, 34 for families and 34
for women,” Castillo said. “We convert
the cafeteria into a warming center when
the temperatures drop, and we prioritize
beds for women and families fleeing
domestic violence.”

Every corner in the facility was spick
and span. Beds made, corners smoothed
tight; neatly packed container boxes and
lockers held clients’ personal belongings.
“If your stuff is all you’ve got, you can
appreciate the anxiety you might have
about security,” Castillo said.
The center has 14 animal kennels, 50
bike spaces, 86 car spots, including spaces
for overnight parking for individuals
living in their cars. The building boasts
a commercial kitchen that serves three
meals a day (breakfast by Head Start
and lunch by People’s Kitchen), and a
commercial laundry room where clients
can wash their clothes for free. Clients
can meet with a case worker in the
general-purpose room and look for a job in
the computer room.
“We serve 17 to 20 children per day in
the children’s room,” Castillo said. “It’s
a quiet space for families and a place for
Head Start, which runs a day literacy
program for parents and children—it’s
a great way to advance adult literacy by
helping clients read to their kids.”
One of the things that struck me
about 40 Prado was how calm, peaceful,
and purposeful it was. It had the low
hum of clients talking together at the
tables, patiently waiting outside for a bed
assignment. This is a place, I thought,
where people can find dignity and heal.

Health services, too, are offered at
40 Prado. I spoke with Caitlin May, a
physician’s assistant with Community
Health Centers, who sees patients on-site
several days a week.
“Because services are co-located,
we can bridge the needs of clients, like
the SLO-HUB Project, which provides
dual diagnosis for mental health and
substance abuse disorders,” she said.
“Plus, we have eight to 10 beds here for
recuperative care, when patients have
been released from the hospital and they
need help managing post-release care.
Can you imagine getting released from an
emergency room with an I.V. and going to
sleep on the streets?”
May said that 40 Prado represents the
“first real step” in delivering model health
care.
“I get to know my patients here,” May
said. “We can’t heal everyone because it’s
very difficult to resolve layers of social
problems, but I’ve celebrated the success
of clients who were disasters two years
ago, and now they are clean, in housing,
and have friends.”
Castillo, too, calls 40 Prado “a start”:
“We deliver services, not just shelter. Is it
enough? No. On any given night there are
1,200 to 2,500 unsheltered homeless in
San Luis Obispo; we have 122 beds. Not
near enough.”
I asked Castillo what’s needed aside
from increased capacity.
“Resources,” he responded. “We need
service case managers. We have one.
We need retention case managers to

follow individuals as they transition
into housing. We need more permanent,
supportive housing, like the 60Now units.
“We need to offer sobering and
detox services. We need outreach. The
Community Action Team includes Officer T.
Koznek and a social worker, John Klevins.
Two of them to cruise all the corners
and creek beds of SLO. It’s no secret that
some homeless individuals are scared and
resistant to services—we need to wear
them down with outreach and opportunity.
“San Luis Obispo has taken great strides
in building a compassionate care and
comprehensive service facility. We should be
proud of what we’ve accomplished, but we’ll
never be done because homelessness is a
chronic condition.”
Providers like Castillo, Klevins, May,
and others offer clear-eyed perspectives
on the issue. They ask that we, the
community, listen and learn the facts.
“I’ll lead tours around 40 Prado myself,”
Castillo said. “Many of our clients are high
functioning but down on their luck. I know.
I was able to put myself through college
because of Section 8 low-income housing.”
I was humbled that Castillo shared his
story. He benefitted from receiving help,
yes, but how lucky are we in San Luis
Obispo to have his help and expertise?
Let’s keep homelessness—and affordable
housing—a priority. We’ll all benefit. ∆
Amy Hewes is actively involved in
grassroots political action. Send
comments through the editor at clanham@
newtimesslo.com.

Of eggs and country
I
don’t know if you guys have noticed
or not, but we’re kind of falling apart
over here. We’ve got employees all over
SLO County who are either furloughed or
being forced to work without pay, which is
bullshit. Who wants to work without pay
because their elected representatives have
no capacity to understand what it really
means to go without a paycheck?
Our president is allegedly a
“millionaire”—we really don’t know
because all he will say is that he’s worth
“a lot—like, A LOT—of money!” Our
congressional representatives make
upward of $170,000 a year. Two-fifths of
them are millionaires.
Do you think U.S. Rep. Salud
Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) would be
voluntarily forgoing his paycheck if he
worried about making his mortgage
payment or feeding his family??
The average salary for a Transportation
and Security Administration (TSA)
employee is $48,000 per year. Starting
salary is $27,000. Yup, those are the people
who are in charge of your safety at airports
and on flights, and even the security of your
nation. They deal with your angry ass when
you’re late for a flight and just really need to
get through security, dammit! Why is that
always when they decide to strip search you?
Several TSA employees are now working
on week five without pay at the SLO
County Regional Airport, according to
county Director of Airports (Yes, that’s

a plural! SLO County actually has more
than one airport!) Kevin Bumen. GQ
reported that 1 in 10 TSA employees
are calling in sick during the partial
government shutdown, but Bumen happily
reported that’s not the case in SLO!
We have healthy steadfast individuals
working security at our airport!! No
weaklings allowed.
Although, the SLO County Public
Health Department did release
information about a serious case of
influenza that’s making the rounds. I feel a
case of nausea and body aches coming on.
Donald “I need a wall now” Trump
is so worried about the hordes of migrants
“attacking” our southern border that he’s
choosing to not pay the employees that
we use to prevent terrorists from taking
bombs on planes—and force a bunch of
hapless, forgetful travelers to dump the
contents of their water bottles in trash
cans—that could crash into America’s
most iconic places.
Sick of pouring out your liquor in the
security line? Want to take some sweet
California cannabis to Indiana? Need
to keep that 5-ounce bottle of concealer
handy? Find an airport where half the
TSA crew has called in sick and get crazy!
The U.S. Coast Guard is responsible
for protecting about 90,000 miles of
coastline from security threats and the
Exclusive Economic Zone that extends
200 miles from shore. The starting salary?

It’s $20,000 a year plus benefits.
Members of the Coast Guard are
in the only branch of the military
that’s not getting paid during
the Great Wall Debate of Doom.
The 27-member station in Morro
Bay runs about 300 miles of the California
coast, saving people from themselves and
others—finding abandoned panga boats full
of dope and taking in that foggy air.
Cambria resident Jim Mang started
a GoFundMe to help those guys out. It’s
already raised $3,500 of its $100,000 goal.
Divide that between 27 people, and it’s
$129 per person for the month of January.
Who needs the government?
But you know what? Let’s not worry
about those guys. They’re not important.
You know what is important? Border
security. No, not our maritime borders.
People don’t flee their countries via boat,
silly. It’s those land borders that we should
worry about. It’s the almost 2,000 miles of
hot desert border that sidles up to Mexico
that we need to worry about.
It’s not like drug czars (ahem, El Chapo
Guzman) have their cartels build crazy
intricate tunnels underneath the wall
that’s already there or anything.
Let’s face it, people. It’s not terrorists
or drugs that a wall is going to stop. It’s
people with brown faces fleeing terrible
situations. If you’re going to hold a quarter
of our federal government hostage over
beefing up border security by building a

stupidly expensive wall, at
least be honest about what
you’re trying to keep out of
this country.
And guess what? We’re
not paying our U.S. Border
Patrol agents or Customs
and Border Protection
officers, either.
I don’t understand!
How long do you think our borders
will be “secure” if the people doing the
protecting don’t get paid? How long will
you work without a paycheck?
And the E-verify system people, like
our favorite immigration nut in Paso
Robles, Michael Rivera (who did not
get elected to serve on the City Council),
push to make sure that the people in this
country who are working are documented
and legal? Yeah, umm. The funding for
that is a no-go at the moment because of
your favorite Negotiator in Chief.
I feel like we should just crack two eggs
into a pan with the MAGA logo on the
handle and put up a live video feed on
YouTube.
“This is your country,” an awkwardly
deep-voiced man will mumble.
We can zoom in on the action and
turn the volume up as the eggs cackle
and bubble. Then a fork will prick both
the yolks and the liquid will ooze out,
destroying the perfect fried egg.
“This is your country on Trump. Any
questions?” ∆
The Shredder likes eggs over easy at
shredder@newtimesslo.com.

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The San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum hosts
In the Studio: Texture Painting on Foil every
morning at 10 a.m. from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, and
at 1 p.m. on Feb. 3. Kids are welcome to come
and use either their hands or a brush to paint
on sheets of foil. Call (805) 545-5874 or visit
slocm.org/programs to find out more.
—Caleb Wiseblood

THE BIZ: AGENTS, AUDITIONS, AND ANXIETY
This class will cover how to submit to an agency, how
to audition for a new agent, how to handle commercial
auditions, and more. Jan. 27, 1-3 p.m. $35. Tigerlily
Salon Studio, 659 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805541-9911, tigerlilysalon.com.

CABARET SINGING AND PERFORMANCE CLASS
Learn the art of singing in a Cabaret style and setting.
Find your key and style with a skilled accompanist. You
may start anytime during the semester. Wednesdays,
6:30-9:30 p.m. $185 for 12 week class or $20 per
night as a drop-in student. 805-772-2812. cuesta.
edu/communityprograms. Cuesta College Community
Programs, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

New Times and the Sun now share their
community listings for a complete Central
Coast calendar running from SLO County through
northern Santa Barbara County. Submit events online
by logging in with your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account
at newtimesslo.com. You may also email calendar@
newtimesslo.com. Deadline is one week before the issue
date on Thursdays. Submissions are subject to editing
and approval. Contact Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood
directly at cwiseblood@newtimesslo.com.

Gallery at Marina Square in Morro Bay presents works by Michael Castaneda and Sheril
Viau, starting Feb. 1 through 27. This exhibit features photography by Castaneda and
watercolor paintings by Viau. An opening reception takes place on Feb. 8 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Call (805) 772-1068 or visit galleryatmarinasquare.com for more info.
—C.W.

COMMON GROUND 2019 Viewers are invited to
see how artists are engaging with the current political
landscape and representing their beliefs, anxieties
and ideals. Through Jan. 27, noon 805-238-9800.
Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles,
studiosonthepark.org.
COUNTRY HOMES AND GARDENS Digital artists
Deb Hofstetter and Dean Crawford Jr. collaborate
with fellow artist Deprise Brescia, an award-winning
encaustic, acrylic, and mixed media artist. Through
Feb. 1 Free. 805-238-9800. Studios on the Park, 1130
Pine St., Paso Robles, studiosonthepark.org.
DENISE SCHRYVER EXHIBIT Original paintings and
pastels by local artist Denise Schryver are on display
and for sale. Part of the proceeds benefit the mission of
Courtney’s House and Paradise fire victims. Through

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PARTNERS Features works by couples who share
a home and whose creative passions navigate their
relationship and their art in unique ways. Some duos
collaborate and create pieces of art together. Through
Feb. 24 Free. 805-238-9800. Studios on the Park, 1130
Pine St., Paso Robles, studiosonthepark.org.
SAN LUIS OBISPO

ART AFTER DARK SLO Unites visual, literary, and
performing artists with the community and participating
venues. Visit site for full list of programs and events.
First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. 805-544-9251.
artsobispo.org. SLO County, Countywide, San Luis
Obispo.

CENTRAL COAST PRINTMAKERS: BANNER A
collaborative exhibition featuring contemporary prints
made by members of the Central Coast Printmakers
Group, a membership group of SLOMA. Through Jan.
27 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo
Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.
CYNTHIA MEYER: LOCAL COLOR Enjoy landscape,
light, and architecture captured on a sunny day in SLO.
ongoing, 6-9 p.m. Free. 805-210-8687. secretslo.com.
Sauer-Adams Adobe, 964 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo.
LIGHT FROM A DARK ROOM: PHOTOGRAPHY
BY MARTA PELUSO Contains black-and-white silver
gelatin photographs made using film as well as digital
color photography. This exhibition reflects the evolution
of Marta Peluso’s art over time and includes new as well
as older images that have been revisited. Through Jan.
27 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo
Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: BRUSHSTROKES 2019 A
non-themed state-wide juried exhibition at SLOMA. Juror:
Jerry McLaughlin. Visit site for details. Mondays-Sundays.
through May 15 $35 for up to two paintings. 805-5438562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010
Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: AWAKEN SLO COUNTY
STUDENTS A year-long program celebrating art and
community expressed through the imaginative creations
of our county’s students. Three student exhibitions will
be displayed at SLOMA throughout the year. Through
May 12 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis
Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CALENDAR GIRLS Based on the true story of eleven
Women’s Institute members who posed nude for a
calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research
Fund. Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m. and Sundays, 3
p.m. through Feb. 17 $15-$20. 805-776-3287. By
The Sea Productions, 545 Shasta Ave., Morro Bay,
bytheseaproductions.org.

COMEDY NIGHT Weekly comedy show featuring
touring and local comics all for one dollar. Guests can
enjoy beer, food, raffle giveaways, and more. Hosted
by Henry Bruington and Aidan Candelario. Limited
spots available for the open mic. Thursdays, 7:30-10
p.m. through Feb. 28 $1. 805-540-8300. Bang The
Drum Brewery, 950 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo,
bangthedrumbrewery.com/.

CROSSING THE LINE A play about how one man’s
quest for peace lands him in prison. Presented by the
Poetic Justice Project. Jan. 26, 4-7 p.m. $15. 805-7147417. poeticjusticeproject.org. St. Barnabas Episcopal
Church, 301 Trinity Way, Arroyo Grande.

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E-DEVICE HELP Please sign up in advance. Thursdays,
8:30-10 a.m. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro
Bay.
HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK Join Brendan
Kelso for an interactive class that will walk you through
the simple steps to self-publish your own book. Jan. 24,
4-5 p.m. Free. 805-927-4336. Cambria Library, 1043
Main St., Cambria.

LET’S TALK! Enjoy a TED Talk or hear a speaker in
person. A wide variety of interesting topics will be
covered throughout the series. Each session is followed
by a gently moderated discussion. Fourth Friday of
every month, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. 805-995-3312. Cayucos
Library, 310 B. St., Cayucos.

Black and White, a new exhibit at Studios on the Park
in Paso Robles, opens Feb. 1. This photography showcase
features a collection of works by digital artists Deb Hofstetter
and Dean Crawford Jr. Admission is free. Call (805) 2389800 or visit studiosonthepark.org to find out more.
—C.W.

UCCE MASTER FOOD PRESERVERS BOWL OF
SOUL-BONE BROTH AND BEYOND Start with a
bone broth base that can be incorporated into different
recipes. Techniques for freezing and pressure canning
will be highlighted. Jan. 26, 10 a.m.-noon $10. 805781-1429. UCCE Audtiorium, 2156 Sierra Way, San Luis
Obispo.

POINT SLO LIGHTHOUSE TOURS Docents lead
guests on a one-hour tour of the historic site, the
buildings, and up to the Lighthouse tower. Please arrive
15 minutes early. All proceeds go directly toward
the site’s restoration. Wednesdays, 12 & 1 p.m. and
Saturdays, 12, 1 & 2 p.m. $17-$22. 805-540-5771.
pointsanluislighthouse.org. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1
Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach.
TOURS FOR PADDLERS A special tour for visitors
who come by ocean. Paddlers will need to clean sand
from their feet and dry themselves before the tour so
not to damage the antique flooring. Saturdays, 10-10:45
a.m. $6.49. 805-540-5771. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1
Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach.

DEATH CAFE: SAN LUIS OBISPO A casual nonjudgmental group discussion about topics related to
death. There is no intention of leading participants
to any particular conclusion. Fourth Monday of every
month, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.
org/workshops/death-cafe-san-luis-obispo. Hospice SLO
County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS AT CAPTAIN
NEMO Refreshments available on site for purchase.
Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-544-6366. Facebook.
com/CaptainNemoGames. Captain Nemo Games, 563
Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS MEETING CoDependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a 12-step recovery
program for anyone who desires to have healthy
and loving relationships with themselves and others.
Saturdays, 1-2:15 p.m. Free. 805-203-5875. Cambria
Connection, 1069 Main St., Cambria.

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GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP (NORTH
COUNTY) A support group for those grieving the death
of a loved one. This group provides the opportunity to
connect with individuals in a similar situation. Drop-ins
welcome. Wednesdays, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. 805-5442266. hospiceslo.org/support-groups/general-griefsupport-group-0. Hospice SLO County: North County
Office, 517 13th St., Paso Robles.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP MEETING A meeting
for those who know or have known a feeling of
desperation concerning the addiction of a loved one.
Fridays, 12-1 p.m. and Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. Free. 805-2215523. The Redeemer Lutheran Church, 4500 El Camino
Real, Atascadero.
SAN LUIS OBISPO

CHILD LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Hospice SLO County
is offering this support group for those grieving the loss
of a child. Drop-ins welcome. Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m.
Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org/support-groups.
Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP A support
group for those who are caring for a loved one, no
matter the diagnosis. Drop-ins welcome. Every other
Friday, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org.
Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

HEALING DEPRESSION SUPPORT GROUP A safe
place for anyone dealing with depression who would
like to receive support from others. Mondays, 6-7 p.m.
Free. 805-528-3194. Hope House Wellness Center, 1306
Nipomo Street, San Luis Obispo.
LIVING WITH GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Grief is a
natural response to the death of a loved one. This group
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one who is dealing with a life-altering illness. Trained
grief counselors will be present to provide information
about grief. Mondays, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Free. 805-5442266. hospiceslo.org/support-groups. Hospice SLO
County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

NAR-ANON: LET IT BEGIN WITH ME Nar-Anon
is a support group for those who are affected by
someone else’s addiction. Tuesdays 805-458-7655.
naranoncentralca.org/meetings/meeting-list/. San Luis
Obispo, Citywide, SLO.

JAN. 24 – JAN. 31
2019

PET LOSS SUPPORT GROUP A support group for
those grieving the loss of a pet. This group provides
the opportunity to connect with individuals in a similar
situation. Drop-ins welcome. Last Wednesday of every
month, 5-6:15 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org/
support-groups. Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St.,
San Luis Obispo.

SOUTH COAST SLO COU NT Y

GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP (SOUTH
COUNTY) Hospice SLO County is offering this support
group for those grieving the death of a loved one. Held
in the Church Care Center. Drop-ins welcome. Tuesdays,
10-11:30 a.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org. New
Life Pismo, 990 James Way, Pismo Beach.

SPOUSE AND PARTNER LOSS SUPPORT GROUP
(SOUTH COUNTY) A Hospice SLO support group for
those grieving the loss of a partner or spouse. Held in
Room 16. Drop-ins welcome. Thursdays, 5-6:30 p.m.
Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org. New Life Pismo,
990 James Way, Pismo Beach.

The San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre hosts a staged reading of Sarah Burgess’ Dry
Powder on Jan. 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Jan. 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. This
reading is presented by Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Reading Series. Tickets are $15. Call (805)
786-2440 or visit slorep.org for more info.
—C.W.
SAN LUIS OBISPO

The Avila Beach Civic Association hosts its annual Spaghetti
Dinner and Bingo Night on Feb. 1 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the
Avila Beach Community Center. Dinner includes spaghetti,
salad, garlic bread, and dessert. Tickets range from $5 to $10
and are available at my805tix.com. Call (805) 627-1997 or
visit avilabeachcc.com for more info.
—C.W.

IN THE STUDIO: TEXTURE PAINTING ON FOIL
Kids can come and crinkle up a sheet of foil and paint on
it using their hands or a brush. Jan. 29-Feb. 3 805-5455874. slocm.org/programs. San Luis Obispo Children’s
Museum, 1010 Nipomo St., San Luis Obispo.

PYJAMA DRAMA: DRAMA AND IMAGINATIVE
PLAY CLASSES Drama and imaginative play develops
skills that can last a lifetime like the confidence to be
brave, desire to share ideas with others, and the joy of
solving problems with friends by your side. Saturdays,
11-11:45 a.m. and Mondays, 9:30-11 a.m. $12. 805-7090761. pyjamadrama.com. SLO Movement Arts Center,
2074 Parker St., San Luis Obispo.

ZOO TO YOU: WATER WISE The Conservation
Ambassadors present this program about water
conservation. For preschool to sixth grade students.
Jan. 26, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. 805-781-5775. San Luis
Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

REFUGE RECOVERY Refuge Recovery is a nontheistic, Buddhist-inspired approach to treating and
recovering from addictions of all kinds. Open to people
of all backgrounds and respectful of all recovery paths.
Saturdays, 7:30-8:45 p.m. Free; donations welcome. SLO
County Drug and Alcohol Atascadero, 3500 El Camino
Real, Atascadero, 800-838-1381.
SAN LUIS OBISPO

ASK SABRINA 30 years of Tarot reading experience.
Open Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in SLO County
and Thursday and Sunday in South SLO County. ongoing
805-441-4707. asksabrina.com. Private Location, TBA,
San Luis Obispo.
REFUGE RECOVERY SLO Refuge Recovery is a
non-theistic, Buddhist-inspired approach to treating and
recovering from addictions of all kinds. Open to people
of all backgrounds and respectful of all recovery paths.
Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; donations welcome.
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 2201 Lawton Ave.,
San Luis Obispo.
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BARRE AND BRUNCH Ticket includes a 60 minute
Barre session with an instructor, a brunch item, and
a glass of wine. For ages 16 and over. Must be 21 or
over to drink. Jan. 27, 9-11 a.m. $45. 805-369-6100.
Tooth and Nail Winery, 3090 Anderson Rd., Paso Robles,
rabblewine.com/tasting-room/.

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A MYSTERY WITHOUT ESCAPE.
PG-13 recommended
Not for the timid of heart
Limited to 16 seats per passage
$
25 General Admission
All proceeds support student travel expenses to
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in Los Angeles, CA in February 2019.

t’s been a weird week in America.
The government is still shut down because the
president demands American taxpayers pay
for a monument to his ego on our southern border.
A group of supposedly “Christian” high
school students from Covington High
School—who were bused into Washington,
D.C., to march and demand that women be
forced to have babies they don’t want—were
caught on video sneering at and mocking
Native American activist Nathan Phillips,
who apparently stepped in to defuse tensions
between the high schoolers and a group of
protesting black men who were yelling at the
MAGA hat-wearing kids. Even weirder, the
whole fiasco blew up on social media with
liberals piling on the apparently disrespectful
kids while conservatives rationalized the kids’
behavior by condemning Phillips for being the
aggressor. How’s that for partisan tribalism?
And finally, James Baldwin’s 44-year-old
novel about systemic racism, If Beale Street
Could Talk, opened locally at the Palm Theatre,
and its message seemed all too timely and not
44 years old at all.
Clearly, the time feels right for Native
and African-American soul singer Martha
Redbone and her Bone Hill concert at Cal
Poly’s Spanos Theatre this Sunday, Jan.
27 (7 p.m.; all ages; $39 general admission
and $31.20 for students, faculty, and staff at
calpolyarts.org or (805) 756-4849).
Bone Hill is a piece of musical theater that
Redbone and her longtime collaborator pianist,
Aaron Whitby, developed at NYC’s Joe’s Pub
in The Public Theater. The original musical
production traces Redbone’s family back four

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generations in their Kentucky homelands of the
Black Mountains and the coal mines of Harlan
County. The concert’s song genres change as
Redbone, taking on the various characters of
her ancestors, moves through time. You’ll hear
traditional Cherokee chants and lullabies,
rootsy bluegrass, blues, country, gospel, jazz,
rock ’n’ roll, and R&B.
Redbone’s family is a true American melting
pot—Native American, African-American, and
European.
“Well, not only my family but also the whole
town was a melting pot,” Redbone explained
during a recent phone interview. “We were all
coal mining families, and our story upends
the cliché that the hill people associated with
Appalachia were basically all a bunch of inbred
rednecks. People forget that coal mining
brought in people from all over: Portuguese,
Turkish, African-American, Native American.
People think of the Scottish, Irish, and
Germans, but people came from all over, and
their truths get shut by the wayside.”
Bone Hill doesn’t shy away from dark and
violent times in her family’s past, exploring
colonialism and race, examining the plight
of the Cherokee people upon their return
home from the Trail of Tears, looking at
the dynamics between Native and AfricanAmericans, and more.
Does Redbone see parallels between her
family’s story and what’s happening in
American today?
“Absolutely! How long do you have, you
know?” she joked. “All of the things going on in
STARKEY continued page 36

ALL AMERICAN Martha Redbone’s Bone Hill concert looks back at four
generations of her multi-ethnic Appalachia-dwelling family. Redbone performs
it in Cal Poly’s Spanos Theatre on Jan. 27.

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have been continually happening over
time and are continuing to happen faster
than we can get our heads around. I do
think looking into the past helps explain
how were got here. Even if there hasn’t
been an actual genocide, there’s been a
genocide on paper and through policies
that are meant to affect certain groups of
people, to exclude and contain them.”
At the heart of Bone Hill is one woman’s
attempt to look at “The Truth,” to pull
back the curtain and face the facts.
“The truth always rises. Even when
families try to hide information, the truth
comes out,” Redbone said. “I remember
a story about [the actor] Jack Nicholson,
who was raised by his grandmother, who
he thought was his mother, while his
real mother he thought was his sister. He
didn’t find out until years later. The truth
comes out.”
You can hear Redbone’s truth this
Sunday and decide for yourself how it fits
into the context of America today.
“I’m just really excited to tell this story
out there in San Luis Obispo,” she said.
“It always surprises me how the story
seems to resonate with all people. It’s a
real American story. I did the show in
Texas and afterward an Indian family
from India came up and told me how they
had moved to Texas in the 1990s, and
their struggle to become American but to
also hold onto their home culture.”
Every American has a story. Witnessing
Redbone’s may remind you of yours.
Also at Cal Poly this week, see iconic
trumpeter and composer Herb Alpert
in the Performing Arts Center on
Saturday, Jan. 26 (8 p.m.; all ages;
$32 to $52 general and $25.60 to $41.60
students, faculty, and staff at calpolyarts.
org or (805) 756-4849). “The Lonely Bull,”
“A Taste of Honey,” “Rise,” and “This
Guy’s in Love with You” are but a few of
Alpert’s hits. He’ll be joined by his wife,
Lani Hall, a Grammy Award-winning
vocalist and former lead singer with
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66.

Numbskull and
Good Medicine
Presents at The Siren
Somewhere between indie folk and
Americana, you’ll find Front Country,
a roots pop act disguised as an acoustic
string band. See them Saturday, Jan.
26, with Alec Lytle & Them Rounders
opening (8:30 p.m.; 21-and-older; $12
presale at Boo Boo’s or ticketfly.com or
$15 at the door).

The African Children’s Choir plays
the Clark Center on Friday, Jan. 25 (7
p.m.; all ages; donations appreciated).
Prepare to have your hearts melted
by this joyful group performing lively
African songs and dances.
Catalina Eddy and the Blue Keys
play D’Anbino Cellars on Friday, Jan.
25 (7:30 p.m.; 21-and-older; $10). Expect
a smokin’ mix of jump-blues and rootsy
rock ’n’ soul.
The SLO Blues Society presents
blues master Tommy Castro and the
Painkillers on Saturday, Jan. 26 (7:30
p.m.; 21-and-older; $25 at the door), at the
SLO Vets’ Hall, with Back Bay Betty
opening.
Get your hot jazz fix when the Basin
Street Regulars host The High Sierra
Jazz Band and Rag Bone Saints this
Sunday, Jan. 27, in the Pismo Vets’ Hall
(1 p.m.; all ages; $10 at the door).
Bootleg Sunshine plays the Frog and
Peach on Tuesday, Jan. 29 (10 p.m.;
21-and-older; free). These soulful, funky
improvisers play songs “about the most
important things in life: love, loss, food,
death, and dancing,” they said via email. ∆
Keep up with New Times Senior Staff
Writer Glen Starkey via Twitter at twitter.
com/glenstarkey, friend him at facebook.
com/glenstarkey, or contact him at
gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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This session features a singer/songwriter/musician
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OPEN MIC AT THE LAST STAGE WEST Bring your
own acoustic instrument or play on the house guitar
or piano. Sundays, 5-9 p.m. Free. 805-461-1393. Last
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Creek Road, Atascadero, laststagewest.net.

The Siren in Morro Bay presents Dave
Arcari and The Bonneville Phantoms
on Feb. 2 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Arcari
performs a blend of trash country
punk, rockabilly, and alternative blues.
Admission is free. Call (805) 225-1312 or
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Music celebrating royalty and the divine: Couperin’s “L’impériale,”
Handel’s “Gloria in excelsis Deo” and “Salve Regina,” and Rameau’s
“Thétis.” Sopranos Cait Frizzell and Katya Gruzglina, and Matthew
Goinz, bass, with Paul Woodring, organ, and Mensa Sonora California
on period instruments: Anthony Martin, violin; David Wilson, violin;
John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; and Charles Sherman, harpsichord.

Members of Cal Poly’s Chamber Choir, Symphony and faculty join with
guest artists to perform the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. A
celebration of kings both earthly and heavenly, this performance joins
together Bach’s first known cantata for Christmas Day with Handel’s
celebration of King George II’s victory at the Battle of Dettingen.
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TMOSPHERE
CAL POLY ARTS PRESENTS

DUSTBOWL REVIVAL
& HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN

WATSKY

Arts
Artifacts

Morro Bay Art
Association holds pastel
painting workshop

The Morro Bay Art
Association presents a soft
pastel workshop series with
award-winning artist Greg
Trombly on Feb. 7, 14, and
21, from 1 to 4 p.m. each
day, at Art Center Morro Bay.
This course is designed to
provide hands-on guidance to
students and focuses on basic
drawing and observation skills.
Emphasis will be placed on
composition, color, and value.
Trombly will begin each class
with a short demonstration.
Participants will then complete
independent work from
personal reference photos and
Trombly’s guidance. Students
are encouraged to bring a
reference photo of a sunset
and shoreline for these classes.
Images provided by Trombly will
also be available for use.
The series begins with an
introduction to soft pastel and
a sunset demonstration on
Feb. 7 and continues with a
sky demonstration on Feb. 14.
The workshops conclude with
a seashore demonstration on
Feb. 21. Admission is $30 per
class for members and $35
per class for non-members.
All art materials are included.
Students can reserve their spot
online at artcentermorrobay.org
or by calling (805) 772-2504.

North County Theatre
Works presents Trifles

The North County Theatre
Works’ production of Susan
Glaspell’s one-act play, Trifles,
opens Friday, Feb. 1, and
shows through Sunday, Feb. 3,
at the Templeton Performing
Arts Center. This murder
mystery covers various themes
including isolation, morality,
and gender roles.
The show is directed by
Catherine Kingsbury, and the
cast includes Christine Miller,
Jeff Davis, Branden Fetzer,
Hannah van den Eikhof, and
Anthony Copen. Performances
take place at 7 p.m. on Feb. 1
and 2, and at 3 p.m. on Feb.
3. All tickets are $10. Visit the
North County Theatre Works’
Facebook page for more info.

Los Osos church
hosts poetry and
meditation event

St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church
in Los Osos hosts its Morning of
Meditation and Art on Saturday,
Feb. 2, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Poems will be read and
art materials will be available
for guests to use. No writing
or art experience is necessary.
Admission is free, but donations
are accepted. Call (805) 528-0654
or visit stbenslososos.org for
more information. ∆
—Caleb Wiseblood

➤ D.I.Y. [40]
➤ Film [41]

Gallery
IMAGE COURTESY OF CARMA COLEMAN

BY RYAH COOLEY

Move with it
Paso Robles Art
Association debuts
In Motion show

S

ometimes Carma Coleman
just lets her art take her
whichever way the wind
blows that day. So when the wind
literally blew over her canvas in
progress again and again, she
decided to roll with it.
The 18-year-old Paso Robles
multimedia artist was working
outside creating the abstract
piece that would become Morning
Wind for the Paso Robles Art
Association’s latest show, In
Motion, currently on display
at Studios on the Park, when a
particularly strong gust of wind
knocked it over. The show curators
asked local artists to take the
exhilaration of movement—flying,
skipping, spinning, coasting—and
apply it to media like paintings,
sculpture, ceramic, glass, collage,
assemblage, photography, digital
art, and mixed media. So Coleman
took that gust of wind as a
collaborative gesture, rather than a
sign that she needed to start over.
“It fell twice, and I thought it
looked cool,” Coleman said. “I
literally used motion to make that
piece.”
Morning Wind features a
combination of acrylic paint and
barbed wire wrapped around
a canvas. The finished result
almost looks like a ragged, warped
wooden fence with bursts of red
dripping down.
“I’m feelings-based with my
pieces,” Coleman said. “I’m a very
sensitive person so it’s like therapy
in a way.”
When Paso Robles artist
Cathy Luther went out to the
Chesebrough Farm pumpkin
patch in October, she took 30
photos of an idyllic windmill,
spinning about, that she happened
upon. After working in the
computer program Topaz to layer
on the texture effect and add in

Not so still life

The Paso Robles Art Association’s latest
show, In Motion, will be on display at
Studios on the Park through Jan. 30. Visit
studiosonthepark.org for more information.

dreamy, drifting clouds, one of
those photos would become the
piece, Wind In Motion. The end
result looks a bit a the pictureperfect postcard.
“Digital enhances it more,”
Luther said of her work. “It’s more
of a clear shot.”
While watercolor artist Alice
Ronke lives in North County,
she regularly takes trips just
a bit south or north to spots
like Cayucos, Morro Bay, and
Moonstone Beach to be where
the sand meets the water for
inspiration.
“I love the ocean,” Ronke said.
“I go there to paint frequently. I
sit on the beach and am inspired
by the ocean and the people who
come along.”
Both waves and people are
always moving. That very
synergistic relationship led
Ronke to paint pieces like
Paddleboarding while hanging out
at Cayucos beach. In her painting,
a lone paddleboarder calmly
navigates choppy waves while an
orange sun beams brightly in the
background. It could be either
sunset or sunrise, but both man
and waves move forward.
“The waves are in constant
motion,” Ronke said. “The
paddleboarder can take advantage
of that to propel himself forward.”
When people look at Ronke’s
watercolor pieces, she hopes they
see more than just pretty pictures.
She wants them to experience the
local area the way that she does.
“I try to capture the feeling
that I have when I see beauty,”
Ronke said. “And I’ll tell you, SLO
County has a lot of beauty.” ∆
Arts Writer Ryah Cooley likes it
when things flow. Contact her at
rcooley@newtimesslo.com.

IMAGE COURTESY OF ALICE RONKE

WATER AND
LIGHT Paso
Robles artist
Alice Ronke
took inspiration
from the
movement of
the waves and
paddleboarders
at Cayucos
beach when
she created
the watercolor
painting,
Paddleboarding.

IMPROMPTU Morning Wind, a multimedia piece by teen artist Carma
Coleman, was created in part when the wind knocked her canvas over
while working outside in Paso Robles.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CATHY LUTHER

ALMOST
REAL
Paso
Robles
artist
Cathy
Luther
takes
photos
and alters
them
digitally in
programs
like Topaz
to create
pieces like
Wind In
Motion.

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D.I.Y.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE SLO COUNTY LIBRARY

SO REAL A
SLO County
Library patron
tries out the
Oculus Go, a
virtual reality
device made
by Facebook.
The Oculus
Go is just one
device that can
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as part of the
Mobile MakerKit
program.

exhibitions

the empathy of patience

michael f. rohde,
woven tapestries

light from a dark room
marta peluso

banners: prints & patterns
central coast printmakers

events
shawn meyers in concert
2/20, 7pm, $20 general
education

adult workshops
youth art classes
sloma, a.g. & atascadero

michael f. rohde

sloma.org

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ith just the swipe of a library
card, virtual reality devices can
now come to the homes of San
Luis Obispo County residents for free.
While the library has offered
cardholders access to open hours at the
SLO MakerSpace for years now, Sharon
Coronado, the adult services coordinator
for the library, wanted to take things
up a notch. So
at the end of
Hands-on
2018, the county
To put a hold on a Mobile
library system
MakerKit or for online
rolled out its
tutorials on how to use
Mobile MakerKit
them, visit slolibrary.org.
program, which
allows adult
library cardholders to check out a virtual
reality device, sewing or embroidery kit,
a JD Humanoid robot, a Wacom Cintiq
tablet, and more for free for up to three
weeks.
“It’s turning out to be very popular
so far,” Coronado said. “Everything has
holds.”
The library offers 12 kits with
different devices and equipment for
various projects. The Mobile MakerKits
are funded by $10,000 in grants from
the State Library and the Southern
California Library Cooperative.
“I think our patrons are very capable
of amazing things, and the maker
movement is the perfect conduit for that,”
Coronado said.
Coronado also said that so far the
Oculus Go, a virtual reality headset
device made by Facebook, is proving to be
the most requested item out of the Mobile
MakerKits. At just $200, the 32-gigabyte
version of the Oculus Go is an affordable
way to offer virtual reality to more people.
“People can have virtual reality in their
homes,” Coronado said.
Using the Oculus Go, library patrons
can meet with friends and also participate
in different games or experiences. Many
popular movies and shows, like Coco
and Stranger Things, offer interactive
experiences on the Oculus Go.
Cardholders can also check out
the robotics kit, which includes a JD
Humanoid robot, or create digital art on
a tablet or engage in more traditional

crafting like sewing and embroidery. The
adult section of the library website now
includes a resources page with different
tutorials that go with each kit.
If a device from a kit is damaged, lost,
or stolen, Coronado said that patrons won’t
be charged the full retail price of an item.
The cost of repairs or replacements would
be determined on a case-by-case basis.
“The most important thing for us is
that people use the library,” she said.
Currently there are about 65 holds on
the 12 different Mobile MakerKits, with
one third of those holds being for the two
Oculus Go devices. Coronado said the
library hopes to expand the program
and is working to see which devices are
most desired and if local residents would
sponsor more kits.
“We’re always here to listen,” Coronado
said. Δ
Arts Writer Ryah Cooley is working on
her hand lettering skills. Contact her at
rcooley@newtimesslo.com.

HUMAN TOUCH Meet JD the
Humanoid, who comes in the robotics kit
that library cardholders can check out for
free for up to three weeks.

Anna If Beale Street Could Talk is
nothing short of heartbreaking—a
story you desperately hope will turn out
differently but inevitably cannot and
remain truthful, so the audience is left
to wallow in the injustice of it all. Fonny
and Tish are a classic story of young
love—raised in the same neighborhood,
friends since either can remember,
and soon young lovers whose world of
Glen If you want a reminder of all the
possibility shoots like
ways the deck is
sparks from their
stacked against
black people in the
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK eyes when they look
at each other. They
U.S., this is the
What’s it rated? R
don’t have much,
film. It lays out the
What’s it worth, Anna? Full price
but they have each
systemic racism,
What’s it worth, Glen? Full price
other. While Tish’s
lack of education
Where’s it showing? The Palm
family is loving and
and opportunity,
supportive, Fonny’s
unfair policing, mass
holy roller mother (Aunjanue Ellis) and
incarceration, discriminatory housing,
condescending sisters (Ebony Obsidian
social caste system, and destructive
and Dominique Thorne) think he’s far
policies that plague black communities.
too good for Tish and that she’s led him
The story is set in the early ’70s, and it’d
down a dark path. Fonny’s father, Frank
be nice to think we’ve overcome these
(Michael Beach), tries to be the bridge
issues, but what novelist and social
between the two families when Tish
critic James Baldwin wrote about 44
breaks the news that Fonny will soon
years ago is just as prevalent today.
be a father, but his quick anger and
The story’s an infuriating indictment
Mrs. Hunt’s holier-than-thou attitude
of American culture, deftly handled by
crash into a messy scene that leaves the
Jenkins, whose last feature-length film,
Moonlight, deservedly took home the 2017 celebration tainted with violence. The
film vacillates between Fonny’s time in
Best Picture Academy Award. What’s
jail awaiting trial, Tish’s pregnancy, and
amazing about the film and book is it’s
flashbacks to their budding relationship
also a complicated and tender love story,
and plans for the future. We watch as
a celebration of black family life, and an
Fonny becomes a shell of himself, gaunt
optimistic clarion call that despite the
and broken as his trial gets pushed
horrors piled upon the black community,
further and further away and as hope
there’s an unstoppable nobility there.
and money quickly diminish. It’s a
When Tish tells her family that she’s
beautiful story of enduring love, yet
pregnant out of wedlock, her sister,
equally devastating as their hope for
Ernestine (Tayonah Parris), says, “Don’t
a happy life is slowly and constantly
you hang your head. Lift your chin up!”
ground down by the unfair, racist society
There’s no shame in suffering indignities
surrounding them. Like Moonlight, this
brought upon you by an oppressor, and if
is not to be missed.
Tish’s fiancé, Fonny, hadn’t been falsely
Glen The scene you
accused of rape instead of sitting in
describe is pivotal and
jail, he and Tish would be married and
depicts a black community
starting a family. At its center, this is a
pitted against itself. The
tragic story of a couple forced apart by
social caste system, with
an uncaring and broken system designed
Mrs. Hunt thinking her
to perpetuate on the black community
family is somehow superior
all the things it accuses the black
to the Rivers family, is
community of, but Tish’s family is too
one of the ways the white
strong, too loving, and too proud to give
power structure keeps
up. I left the theater both furious at our
communities of color in
culture and amazed by Baldwin’s and
check. Likewise, Victoria
Jenkins’ narrative gifts.
riter-director Barry Jenkins
(Moonlight) helms this story
based on James Baldwin’s novel
about Harlem woman Tish Rivers (KiKi
Layne) trying to clear her fiancé, Alonzo
“Fonny” Hunt (Stephan James), of a crime
he didn’t commit while carrying their first
child. (119 min.)

Rogers (Emily Rios), the Hispanic woman
who was raped, is directed by the police
to pick Fonny out of a lineup even though
she can’t identify him as the rapist.
She’s told he did it, so she says he did it.
She’s no freer to do the right thing than
Fonny is free to effectively defend himself
against the false charges. Tish and one
of Fonny’s friends, Daniel Carty (Brian
Tyree Henry), may have been with Fonny
at the time of the rape, but Tish is his
fiancée and Daniel is an ex-con, so neither
alibi means anything. The police have the
power, and Rogers’ violation is doubled
by dragging an innocent man into the
mess. The only obvious villain in it all is
Officer Bell (a marvelously malevolent Ed
Skrein), who saw Fonny thrash a white
man for harassing Tish but couldn’t
arrest him because too many witnesses
saw the truth. I’m still infuriated days
later thinking about the injustice of it
all. Tish’s and Fonny’s fathers even turn
to petty crime to make enough money to
send Tish’s mother, Sharon (a fierce and
riveting Regina King), to Puerto Rico to
implore Rogers to tell the truth and save
Fonny. These men aren’t criminals, but
the story shows the lengths they’ll go to
save their kids from heartache. We’re
writing this on Martin Luther King Jr.’s
birthday, and it seems appropriate to
quote him: “Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do
that.” That’s this film’s message, too.
Anna Skrein is fantastic as the racist
and crooked cop. His hate is abundantly
clear from his encounter with Fonny,
and his promise to “see you around”
haunts the young couple when Officer
Bell comes upon a crime to pin on him.
All of the performances are masterful.
Jenkins is a gem at casting. These actors
evoke layers upon layers of depth into
these characters—no role is small even
if brief. In one scene, Daniel is over for
dinner with Tish and Fonny, and while
Tish is busy in the kitchen, Daniel starts
to tell Fonny about his recent stint in
jail. He was falsely accused of stealing
a car and had a little pot on him at the
time. So which do you take, the theft you
didn’t commit or the drug charge that
will put you away for longer? There’s
no right answer, and the justice system
chews up young black men and spits
them out with nothing but a record and
a chip on their shoulder. Blatant racism
isn’t justice, and with the preponderance
of those incarcerated being black
men, the problems of 44 years ago are
obviously still rampant today. This
is an important film, one that will no
doubt haunt me. I can’t wait to see what
Jenkins give us next. ∆
Split Screen is written by Senior Staff
Writer Glen Starkey and his wife, Anna.
Comment at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.
SUPPORT
SYSTEM
Tish’s (KiKi
Lane, center)
sister, Ernestine
(Tayonah Parris,
left), and mother,
Sharon (Regina
King, right), give
her what she
needs to carry
on in the face of
injustice.

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What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10
James Wan (Saw, Insidious, The
Conjuring) directs this latest entry
in the DC Extended Universe, Aquaman.
The story centers on land dweller Arthur
Curry (Jason Momoa), aka Aquaman,
the rightful heir to the throne of the
underwater kingdom Atlantis. After his
Atlantean half-brother, King Orm (Patrick
Wilson), declares war on the surface,
Arthur must claim his birthright in order to
stop genocide. With help from allies Mera
(Amber Heard) and Vulko (Willem Dafoe),
Arthur travels the world in search of an
ancient weapon: a trident that legend says
can only be wielded by the one true king of
Atlantis. (143 min.)
—Caleb Wiseblood

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THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING

What’s it rated? PG
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10
Writer-director Joe Cornish (Attack
the Block) helms this family adventure
about a group of kids on a quest to save the
world. Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is sure
he’s nothing special … until he finds Excalibur
encased in stone! With the help of Merlin (Sir
Patrick Stewart), Alex will unite his friends
and attempt to defeat the evil enchantress
Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson). (132 min.)
—Glen

New

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre
Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects,
X-Men, Superman Returns) directs
this biopic about Freddie Mercury (Rami
Malek) and Queen, chronicling the band’s
rise to super stardom, Mercury’s solo
career and AIDS diagnosis, and their
triumphant reunion and spellbinding
performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert.
The film is nominated for five Academy
Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Rami
Malek), Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound
Editing, and Best Film Editing. (134 min.)
—Glen Starkey

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A DOG’S WAY HOME

What’s it rated? PG
What’s it worth? Matinee
When’s it showing? Galaxy, Park,
Stadium 10
Charles Martin Smith (Air Bud,
Dolphin Tale) directs this family
adventure about Bella (voiced by Bryce
Dallas Howard), a dog who travels 400
miles to find her owner.
Born under a house as a stray, found
and brought home by aspiring doctor Lucas
(Jonah Hauer-King) to live with him and his
unemployed veteran mom, Terri (Ashley
Judd), and then, through circumstance,
sent to live elsewhere, Bella tries to find
her way home only to get lost in the woods
and befriended by a cougar cub.
Sure, the story is familiar, perhaps even
derivative. Yes, it’s clumsily cloying and
emotionally manipulative. True, its social
justice message is dumbed down to the point
of being ineffective. But there’s an adorable
dog, a formulaic feel-good story, and you can
bring the whole family … and some tissues,
definitely some tissues. (96 min.)
—Glen

The film is nominated for five Academy
Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Viggo
Mortensen), Best Supporting Actor
(Mahershala Ali), Best Original Screenplay,
and Best Film Editing. (130 min.)
—Glen

FLIGHT AND FIGHT! Goku and Vegeta face off against Broly, a Saiyan warrior with
amazing powers, in Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

ESCAPE ROOM

What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Rent it
When’s it showing? Park
Director Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last
Key, The Taking of Deborah Logan) helms
this thriller about six strangers who find
themselves in circumstances beyond their
control after entering a mysterious escape
room. The group must use their wits and
work together if they’re to survive.
There’s enough tension and suspense
to thrill fans of the genre, but for many
viewers the film won’t warrant a trip to the
theaters. (109 min.)
—Caleb

THE FAVOURITE

What’s it rated? R
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? The Palm
Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The
Lobster, The Killing of a Scared
Deer) directs this early 18th century period
piece about two warring women seeking
favor from the ailing, prickly Queen Anne
(Olivia Colman).
Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) is the
queen’s longtime companion who
essentially runs the country during a time
of war. Newcomer Abigail (Emma Stone), a
new servant to the queen, uses her charms
to gain power of her own as she attempts
to return to her aristocratic roots.
Featuring excellent performances
coupled with a rich and timely subtext that
connects beyond its period setting, The
Favourite revels in its skewering of royal
aloofness and power gluttony and delivers
a sardonic treat.
The film is nominated for 10 Academy
Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Supporting
Actress (Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz),
Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume
Design, Best Cinematography (Robbie
Ryan), Best Sound Editing, and Best
Production Design, and Best Film Editing.
(119 min.)
—Glen

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BE SOMEBODY Merlin (Sir Patrick Stewart) helps Alex
(Louis Ashbourne Serkis) fulfill his destiny, in The Kid Who
Would Be King.

GLASS

What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Matinee
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10, Sunset
Drive-in
In Glass, M. Night Shyamalan (The
Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village,
Lady in the Water, The Happening) brings
back three of his most iconic characters,
directing Bruce Willis as David Dunn,
Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, and
James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb,
a man with 24 personalities. The three are
meshed together in a psychiatric ward to
rid them of their superhuman delusions
while Elijah has a plan of his own to bring
the comic book plot to life.
The film opens up with David Dunn
(you’ll remember him from the 2000 film,
Unbreakable), who’s basically an upgrade
to neighborhood watch. He and his son,
Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark), are the
community’s vigilantes, keeping an eye
on injustice and stopping it in its tracks,
even if it means beating up a stupid kid
or two. Because of that, law enforcement
isn’t really keen on David’s efforts. They
actually see him as a villain (similar to
Gotham City and Batman’s relationship).
David and Joseph are hot on the heels
of Kevin, who, when the beast (one of
his personalities) gets out, has held
people hostage and mangled their bodies.
Currently Kevin has four cheerleaders
hostage in an empty warehouse. When
David accidentally touches Kevin’s arms,
he has an uncanny vision of the location of
the girls, and in the mist of letting them go,
he encounters the beast.
The two fight and end up falling out of
a window where police have surrounded
them, ready to take them both into
custody. But instead of a cell, they’re
taken to a psychiatric ward under Dr. Ellie
Staple’s care—her specialty is delusions
of grandeur. She’s basically there to say,
“Hey you’re making up your freakish
strength in your mind.” Somehow this doeeyed woman has every explanation under
the sun for David’s bizarre strength and for
Kevin’s outlandish ability to walk on walls
and ceilings.
And surprise surprise, the ward’s longtime resident is none other than Elijah, the
mastermind behind the Eastrail 177 train
crash, but he’s highly sedated … or so
we think. Dr. Staple has a ridiculous three
days to whip these three into shape, but
otherwise “vegetable” Elijah has another
plan.
Look, I know what you’re thinking: This
is too long of a buildup to wait for a plot
twist that we all know is coming. But with
that said, I can honestly say I loved every
minute of this film.
We’re so used to superheroes that have
some sort of connection to a mythical god
and are destined for greatness. These
heroes are based on comic books’ stories
but Shyamalan based his trilogy on the
structure of the comic books themselves.
He has a totally different take on his
superheroes: They’re just people.
While I can see the blatant faults in this
movie, I still believe it was worth my $12.
I’ll admit Willis was so boring to watch on
the screen, and Jackson was subpar—
remember he’s supposedly highly sedated

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during most of the film. The star here is
clearly McAvoy. He gives his all to every
personality.
If you’re going to see Glass hoping for
a spectacle of fight scenes, crashing cars,
breaking buildings, and so forth, you’re
not going to get any of that. This is more
than just some superhero film, and while it
could have been more, it has the potential
to be great. (129 min.)
—Karen Garcia

GREEN BOOK

What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Fair Oaks, Galaxy, Park
Co-writer Peter Farrelly (Dumb
and Dumber, There’s Something
About Mary) directs this biopic about
African-American pianist Don Shirley
(Mahershala Ali), who hires working-class
Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip (Viggo
Mortensen) as his driver on a music tour of
the 1960s American South. Though they’re
very different people, they develop a warm
and enduring friendship. This is one of those
classic feel-good movies only a true cynic
could reject. Both lead characters come out
of the other side of the story improved.

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What’s it rated? R
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? The Palm
See Split Screen. The film is up for three
Academy Awards: Best Actress (Regina
King), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best
Original Score.

MARY POPPINS RETURNS

What’s it rated? PG
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Galaxy
Rob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of
a Geisha, Pirates of the Caribbean:
One Stranger Tides, Into the Woods) directs
this sequel to the 1964 classic about a
magical nanny who helps two neglected
children reconnect with their father. This
time around, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt)
returns to the Banks family children who
are now adults. Michael Banks (Ben
Whishaw) lives with his three children—
Anabel (Pixie Davies), John (Nathanael
Saleh), Georgie (Joel Dawson)—and their
housekeeper, Ellen (Julie Walters), in the
same house on Cherry Tree Lane. With
encouragement from Michael’s sister,
Jane (Emily Mortimer), and the help of
lamplighter, Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda),
Mary helps the new set of Banks children
find the joy in life.
The film is up for four Academy Awards: Best
Costume Design, Best Original Song (“The Place
Where Lost Things Go”), Best Original Score,
and Best Production Design. (130 min.)
—Glen

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THE MULE

What’s it rated? R
What’s it worth? Matinee
Where’s it showing? Stadium 10, Sunset
Drive-in
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million
Dollar Baby, Gran Torino) directs
this crime thriller screenplay by Sam
Dolnick, based on The New York Times
Magazine article “The Sinaloa Cartel’s
90-Year-Old Drug Mule” by Nick Schenk.
Eastwood takes on the role of Earl Stone,
a horticulturist and World War II vet who’s
caught in Michigan running $3 million
worth of Mexican cartel cocaine.
The Mule will be remembered as
an effective late-career effort from
a masterful filmmaker who’s given
us classics such as The Outlaw Josey
Wales, Pale Rider, Mystic River, Flags of
Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, and
American Sniper. For me, his amazing
oeuvre is enough to erase his 2012 RNC
speech to an empty chair. (117 min.)
—Glen

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ON THE BASIS OF SEX

What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? The Palm,
Stadium 10
Mimi Leder (Pay It Forward) directs
this inspiring biopic about a young
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) and
her fight for equality, which eventually
helps propel her onto the Supreme Court of
the United States. (120 min.)
—Glen

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A STAR IS BORN

What’s it rated? R
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre
Co-writer, director, and co-star
Bradley Cooper helms this remake
of A Star Is Born (first released in 1937,
and later remade in 1954 and 1976). In
this iteration, Cooper stars as Jackson
Maine, a famous musician whose star
is waning as he discovers talented but
insecure singer Ally (Lady Gaga). As Jack
battles alcoholism and his own decline,
he helps Ally find the strength to let her
talent shine.
You’d think on the fourth retelling
things would be getting stale, but Bradley
Cooper takes a sweeping look at the rise
and fall of stardom, the shallowness of

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BETTER CALL SAUL

television. In astonishing and impressive
fashion, Gilligan and Gould succeed at not
only making a worthy prequel but also
When? 2015-present
creating a series that easily stands on its
What’s it rated? TV-MA
own and that actually has more depth and
Where’s it available? Netflix,
nuance than its predecessor.
When we meet McGill, he’s a struggling
Amazon Prime, iTunes,
lawyer in the early 2000s, at this point
YouTube, Google Play
better known for his antics as Slippin’
requels and sequels normally trigger
Jimmy, his former con-man moniker. He
big red flags in me. They seem to be,
lives in the shadow of his über-successful
on the whole, made usually either as
older brother, Chuck (Michael McKean), a
hollow cash cows or unwise attempts
founding partner of prominent Nevada law
at rekindling the magic of an original
firm Hamlin, Hamlin, & McGill (HH&M).
movie or TV series. So, to be frank, my
Jimmy wants to get on the up-and-up with
initial reaction was cynicism when Better his own private practice but continually
Call Saul, a prequel to Vince Gilligan’s
finds himself resorting to criminal or
masterpiece, Breaking Bad, went on the
fraudulent tactics. Desperate for cash at
air in 2015. I passed at the time, not
the beginning, he gets the idea to stage
wanting to spoil my warm, fuzzy feelings personal injury cases with a couple of
for the original.
willing skateboarders. Instead he winds
But I should’ve known better: Gilligan, up entangled with the grandma of a
who teams up with Peter Gould this time
gang leader, who spares their lives only
to chronicle the life of Albuquerque lawyer thanks to his remarkable wit and ability to
Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk)—who we
negotiate out of backed-in corners.
know later becomes Walter White’s shady
Meanwhile Jimmy also plays the role
smooth-talkin’ fixer in Breaking Bad—is
of devoted brother to Chuck, who’s on
simply one of the best storytellers in
an extended leave from work due to a

“condition” where he believes that he’s
“allergic” to all electricity. Crazy as it
sounds, Jimmy regularly and dutifully
brings food and supplies to his dark,
shuttered home. Chuck isn’t Jimmy’s only
tie to HH&M: He’s also secretly dating
an attorney at the firm, Kim Wexler (a
tremendous Rhea Seehorn), who serves
throughout as Jimmy’s voice of reason and
his liaison between the aboveboard legal
world and the ethically nebulous space he
operates in. Ultimately, Jimmy’s drive to
survive and succeed, in concert with his
genuine talent at law, eventually elevates
him to working with his bro on a big-time
case—but there’s many a twist to come.
Similarly to Breaking Bad, where we
witness a passive high school chemistry
teacher devolve into a Machiavellian
drug lord, Better Call Saul portrays the
tragic trajectory of characters slipping
deeper and deeper into criminality and
corruption. Also returning from Breaking
Bad is retired cop Mike Ehrmantraut (an
amazing Jonathan Banks), who’s given
his own downward character arc that just
feels destined to merge with Jimmy’s.
In my view, no one in television is
exploring the hazy lines of morality better
than Gilligan. Characters you’d think you
would root against, you find yourself
rooting for, and vice-versa. Every actor
turns in fantastic performances, with
Odenkirk leading the way as the one-of-akind Jimmy McGill, who charms as much
as he infuriates over the course of this
captivating journey. (Four seasons, 41- to
60-min. episodes) Δ
—Peter Johnson

COMEDY CLASSICS John C. Reilly (left) stars as
Oliver Hardy, and Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel, in the
biopic Stan & Ollie.
MOVIES from page 42
the entertainment industry, creativity,
substance abuse, family dynamics, and
romance.
The film is up for nine Academy
Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress (Lady
Gaga), Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best
Supporting Actor (Sam Elliott), Best
Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography
(Matty Libatique), Best Original Song
(“Shallow”), Best Sound Mixing, and Best
Sound Editing. (135 min.)
—Glen

a desperate tale about her abusive new
husband (Jason Clarke), who’s not only
threatening her, but her and Baker’s son,
Patrick (Rafael Sayegh). Karen’s solution
is a fishing excursion that will leave her
new husband to the sharks. Is Baker in? Is
Karen’s story all it seems to be? (106 min.)
—Glen

SPIDER-MAN: INTO
THE SPIDER-VERSE
What’s it rated? PG
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Galaxy, Stadium 10
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and
Rodney Rothman co-direct this
animated action adventure co-written by
Phil Lord and co-produced by Christopher
Miller (the duo best known for directing
The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street).
Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore)
becomes the Spider-Man of his version
of reality, then crosses into a parallel
universe where he teams with other

Pick

FEMME FATALE? When his ex-wife Karen (Anne
Hathaway) shows up with a desperate story about her
abusive new husband, fishing boat captain Baker Dill (Matthew
McConaughey) must decide whether to help, in Serenity.
realities’ Spider-Men and a Spider-Woman
to stop a an evil that threatens all realities.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse does for
Marvel what Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
did for DC earlier this year: It takes these
characters places that live action couldn’t
possibly allow (I could be eating these words
in a year or so). Despite the comparison to a
quite sillier film, Spider-Verse is surprisingly
just as earnest as it is humorous. No matter
how many one-liners, knee-slappers, and
instances of breaking the fourth wall there
are, the stakes feel real. (117 min.)
—Caleb

STAN & OLLIE
What’s it rated? PG
Where’s it showing? Galaxy, The Palm
Jon S. Baird (Filth) directs Steve
Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C.
Reilly as Oliver Hardy, in this biopic about
the comedy duo as they attempt to revive
their career with a rigorous theater tour of
post-war Britain. (97 min.)
—Glen

New

THE UPSIDE

What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Matinee
Where’s it showing? Bay, Downtown
Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10
Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Limitless,
Divergent) directs this American
remake of the wonderful 2011 film,
Les Intouchables, about Phillip (Bryan
Cranston), a wealthy quadriplegic who
hires Dell (Kevin Hart), a man with a
criminal record, to help him with his dayto-day needs.
Score this as another one of those
audience-pleasing films that critics find
cliché and cloying. True, it’s not as good as
its French progenitor, but as a feel-good
story of redemption, it works, and there’s
no denying Cranston and Hart’s chemistry.
(125 min.)
—Glen

VICE

What’s it rated? R
What’s it worth? Full price

NO PLACE LIKE HOME (left to right) The Scarecrow
(Ray Bolger), The Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), Dorothy (Judy
Garland), and The Tin Man (Jack Haley) ask the Wizard to
help them in the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz, screening
Jan. 27 in Downtown Centre.
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Stadium 10
Writer-director Adam McKay (The
Big Short, Anchorman: The Legend
of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The
Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers) helms
this biopic dramedy about Washington,
D.C., bureaucratic insider Dick Cheney
(Christian Bale), who became George W.
Bush’s (Sam Rockwell) vice president,
using his power to reshape the U.S. and its
foreign policy.
The film covers Cheney’s life from his
drunken and loutish youth through his
Machiavellian turn as the puppeteer behind
George W. Bush’s presidency, and what
seems clear in McKay’s interpretation of
Cheney is that he was power hungry and
believed the ends justifies the means.
Unnecessary war, “legalized” torture,
bolstering corporations and the super
rich—those are Cheney’s enduring
legacies.
The film is up for eight Academy
Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Actor (Christian Bale), Best Supporting

Pick

Actress (Amy Adams), Best Supporting
Actor (Sam Rockwell), Best Original
Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling,
and Best Film Editing. (132 min.)
—Glen

THE WIZARD OF OZ
What’s it rated? PG
What’s it worth? Full price
Where’s it showing? Sunday, Jan. 27, (2
and 5 p.m.), in Downtown Centre
Come see the 1939
classic about Dorothy
Gale (Judy Garland), who’s swept away
from her Kansas farm by a tornado and
deposited in the Land of Oz, where she
meets new friends who try to help her
return home before the Wicked Witch of
the West (Margaret Hamilton) can hurt her.
(102 min.) ∆
—Glen

New/Pick

New Times movie reviews are compiled by
Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey. Contact
him at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

It’s all about beers,
nachos, and unfussy
fun at Broad Street
Public House

M

ike Cross knows his audience.
As a former pastor, it was the
youth; as a lifelong musician,
it’s always the next person making a
song request; and as the beer-pourer
and nacho-scientist behind Broad
Street Public House—which he coowns alongside Ash Management’s Bill
Hales—it’s the most basic desires of the
average SLO resident.
I mean, who likes wet nachos? His
audience certainly does not. So, Cross
went about fixing the age-old problem.
“I’ve worked in bars and restaurants,
and people are always sending half of
the plate back because the nachos get
soggy in the middle,” Cross says while
wiping down the bar, which opened on
June 1, 2018. “That’s why we layered
everything just so, and
put everything on the side;
Your second
the sour cream, salsa. We
living room
put a lot of thought into it.
Broad Street Public House is
We’re also going to offer
located at 3590 Broad St. in San
different nachos, and you’ll
Luis Obispo and is open 3 to 10
be able to choose your own
p.m. daily. For more information,
toppings.”
find them on Facebook.
Really, it’s the little,
unfussy things—like
building the perfect nachos or totchos
(yes, Cross is hot on the tater tot
nacho trend)—that make a welcoming
neighborhood bar. You want to go where
everyone knows your name, and that’s not
usually the nearest swanky gastropub.
Tucked away from downtown with low
light, vinyl spinning on the turntable,
classic ’80s video games, and super
simple menu items—like the throwback
Minnesota Cheese Plate (sharp cheddar,
mustard, summer sausage, ciabatta)—
Broad Street Public House isn’t trying to
elevate your experience to new heights.
Instead, it aims to ground you.
“People aren’t coming here because we
have this wine or that; it’s because this
place is warm and welcoming, we have
shuffleboard tournaments on Tuesday
nights and darts. It’s a mellow place to
come hang out and have a few beers,”
Cross said, adding that he has no desire
to offer anything harder than beer and
wine.
No, Broad Street Public House is not a
dive bar—it is something more sincere.
Currently, you can find Russian River
Brewing Co.’s Pliny the Elder on the
rotating tap, and once a quarter, Cross
opens the roll-up doors and wheels in
a slew of classic ’80s arcade games for
spirited competitions.
Thursdays you’ll always find live
music, and Saturdays are always a wild

CROWD PLEASING Craft beer, nachos, and old-school
video games? Very few would say “no” to this good-time
trio, on tap now at Broad Street Public House. The new
hangout is located at 3590 Broad St. in San Luis Obispo.

@flavorslo

FLAVOR continued page 47

www.newtimesslo.com • January 24 - January 31, 2019 • New Times • 45

RESTAURANT MONTH
ENJOY JANUARY IN SLO CAL, THE MOST DELICIOUS MONTH OF THE YEAR!
Indulge in SLO CAL Restaurant Month, starting January 1-31, 2019! Participating restaurants will
offer special prix-fixe menus of three courses at $30–$40 per person or other special offerings.

CAYUCOS

PASO ROBLES

Visit Schooners for a fabulous 4 Course Dinner for $40. Featuring
our legendary Calamari, award-winning Clam Chowder, several
eclectic entrees, and our house made desserts. Special discounted
wine pairings will be available as well through the entire month!
Located on the beach in sunny and beautiful Cayucos, Schooners has
been providing authentic ocean view dining with friendly service for
25 years. Valid 5pm–close, daily from Jan 2 through Jan 31, 2019.

We showcase the very best in fresh seafood and colorful produce,
along with world class wines, and signature cocktails. During
Restaurant Month savor an unforgettable 3 course meal at $40
per person with postcard perfect views of the bay and Morro Rock.
Daily Happy Hour 2pm-6pm, Dinner 5pm-9pm and weekend live
entertainment. Visit Open Table to reserve your reservation now!

Chef John McDevitt designs his seasonally changing
menus from the bounty of our beautiful Central Coast.
Sourcing from our own Paso Farm, and working with the
best of local seafood and meat vendors, our kitchen will
entice your palate with unique and satisfying offerings.

Farm fresh cuisine, scratch made pastries and pies. Our
$35 three-course dinner menu features comfort classics
like country pot roast, homemade meatloaf or chicken
and biscuits. Finish your meal with a slice of one of our
famous fruit pies. Savor local flavors in a comfortable,
family-friendly setting.

Featuring the best oceanfront dining in SLO county, Marisol at
The Cliffs is known for its Classic California menu focused on local
ingredients and exceptional desserts. With our January Restaurant
Month special, select your starter, entree, and dessert from our full
menu, highlighting all of our guests’ favorites along with seasonal
specialties, for $30 or $40. Offering a robust wine and craft cocktail
list, weekly live music on our oceanfront patio, and diverse dining
space, Marisol is the perfect place to celebrate any occasion.

PISMO BEACH

Want to be a part
of this page?
Call New Times at
805-546-8208 for more info!

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SEAVENTURE RESTAURANT
Perched above the sands of Pismo Beach, savor
contemporary coastal cuisine while soaking up 180
degree panoramic ocean views and spectacular
sunsets. Small plates, outdoor patios, live music
and a local wine list all accent this beachfront dining
experience.

100 Ocean View
(805) 773-3463 · SeaVenture.com

Flavor

Since 1973

FLAVOR from page 45

card. You might come in for a pint and
stay for a comedy show. In essence,
the community drives the program—
which is what you want in a good
neighborhood watering hole.
Got a few old records you’d like to hear
spun for the first time in ages? Bring
’em in and the staff will spin them and
perhaps even reminisce with you about
the joys of The Who.
Sunday is always trivia night, but
it’s a little different from what you
might expect. Tip: Bring your brainiest
friend to compete in this hot-blooded
competition.
“We have a Cal Poly professor who
writes the questions every week. It’s
his passion, and he goes to all the other
trivia events in town and creates a
totally unique event for us,” Cross said,
adding that he’s yet to win a question
(fingers crossed for next Sunday).
Yes, Broad Street Public House
is just far enough away from the
boots-and-hats-and-boots-and-hats
bump of downtown to offer such novel
ideas as trivia, parking, and audible
conversation. A wholesome “buy a beer
for a friend” board will soon be up and
active, encouraging locals to pass it
forward (talk about a classic idea you
don’t see happening at downtown bars so
much anymore).
Cross said ladies in their 60s are
known to meet over a glass of wine
next to blue collar buddies sharing
an afterwork brew. College kids and
grandpas compete for bragging rights
on the shuffleboard table. Come as you
are, no dress code, no “beer cocktails,” no
artisanal tapas.
Kinda takes you back. Remember just
10 years ago, when we all just went to
bars to hang out, not to prove we knew
more than the mixologist? Cross does,
and there are others who are starting to
wake up, too.
“You’ll see a 28-year-old yoga
instructor and a 69-year-old retiree
playing as a team,” Cross says. “This
really is your neighborhood pub; we
created it to be like your living room.” ∆
Hayley Thomas Cain wants to go where
everyone knows her name. She can be
reached at hthomas@newtimesslo.com.

H AYLEY’S BITES
FOODIE FUN
Shrooming: This Feb. 8 from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m., get ready to learn about
a bounty of succulent mushrooms!
The SLO Botanical Garden will host a
Mushroom Discovery Presentation
taught by mushroom author and
researcher Christian Schwarz, who
will talk about mushrooms commonly
found on the Central Coast (you’ll learn
methods to identify numerous fungi and
discuss flavors; for more info and wait
list registration, go to slobg.org) … Got
a good nose and a good sense of humor?
Think you can take on the black glass
challenge? Head to Croma Vista
Winery every Friday, where you’ll test
your blind tasting skills and guess
which wine is which. Winners get their
names posted to the front board as well
as on social media. Everyone deserves at
FLAVOR continued page 48

The Sun in Northern Santa
Barbara County is looking
for its next staff writer, but
we’re not looking for just
any article-pushing, sourcewrangling, story-chasing
someone.
Are you sick of editing or regurgitating
press releases day after day? Or maybe it’s
those damn list things—you know the
ones: “Top 10 hottest places to eat your
lunch on a rainy day.” Or maybe it’s just not
being able to put the time and reporting
into a story that deserves it: the weeks and
repeated phone calls that give a story what
it needs to ripen into the hard-charging,
data-filled narrative it’s dying to be; the
time that turns a “meh” story into one that
blows a hole in the status quo.
Can you see the big picture of what a story
means to a community? Is that what drives
you? Do you know what it takes to—yes,
we know, it’s cliché—make a difference
in the lives of the people you cover? Does
that sort of thing matter to you?
If so, then you’re exactly who we’re looking
for: a staff writer who isn’t afraid to take on
the tedious, the tenuous, or the talented.
That certain someone who can wrestle
a story to the ground and fill it with the
things that matter to the communities
we cover at the Sun and New Times. Oil,
agricultural, water, and environmental
advocacy aren’t the only things that drive
this place—although those are pretty
juicy beats. There’s more, and we want to
hire someone who can drive his or herself
to unearth those stories and tell them in a
meaningful way.
Let us know if you’ve got what it takes.
We dare you. Send a résumé, cover letter,
and story samples to Cindy Rucker at
crucker@newtimesslo.com.
New Times Media Group
is proud to be an
equal opportunity
employer.

Flavor

EMPLOYMENT

FLAVOR WRITER

FLAVOR from page 47

least a few minutes of fame, right? (go to
cromavera.com for more info).

RAISE A GLASS

Join Our Team!
New Times is looking for its next FLAVOR writer, but we’re not looking for just any
article-pushing, press release-reading, food-eating, wine-drinking someone.
We’re looking for that certain someone who can see the nuances that make a chef, farmer, or winemaker
special—a writer who can tease the most out of an interview, a bite of food, or a sip of liquid. Someone
who not only knows food, but cares about the people making it and where they came from.
FLAVOR is about more than food and drink. It’s about understanding the work that goes into producing
and participating in the chain that leads to your table and into your mouth—and being able to put that on
paper in a way that’s meaningful to our readers.
This is a freelance position with weekly deadlines. Think you have what it takes? Prove it.
Send a résumé, cover letter, and story samples to Editor Camillia Lanham at clanham@newtimesslo.com.
New Times is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Three cheers for Hope: The Paso
Robles wine community recently
recognized a man who has “exemplified
the spirit of Paso Robles Wine Country
with outstanding leadership and
vision in promoting the region.” That
dude? Austin Hope, president and
winemaker of Hope Family Wines!
He can now add “2018 Paso Robles
Wine Industry Person of the Year” to
his long list of awards (learn more about
Hope Family Wines at hopefamilywines.
com) … Forget everything you thought
you knew about bingo. Broken Earth
Winery in Paso Robles is turning the
game on its head (and offering cheese
plates while you play) this Jan. 24 at
6 p.m. Learn more—and check out a
slew of fresh, fun 2019 wine events—at
pasowine.com.

Hayley Thomas Cain loves a hot slice
of pizza, especially when it’s covered in
pasta. She can be reached at hthomas@
newtimesslo.com.

H AYLEY’S P ICKS
But first, ice cream

Best Tapas Style Menu in SLO

NEW TIMES MEDIA GROUP

How sweet it is: Leo Leo Gelato
will open its first scoop shop at the
downtown Paso Market Walk, which
is currently under construction at 1803
Spring St. in Paso Robles … Speaking
of industrial complexes brimming with
tasty offerings, Paso Robles’ Tin City
recently added a new plate to its diverse
table of artisan residents. Tin Canteen—
home of seasonal pizza and fresh
pasta dishes—has joined the existing
wineries, breweries, distilleries, and
ice cream shop in 2019. The restaurant
features chef Michele Gargari and
Brian Terrizzi, whose Giornata
winery and Etto Pastificio pasta
factory and store also call Tin City home
(tincanteenpaso.net). Dig in! ∆

HAPPY HOUR: MON–FRI 4–6pm

805-439-4368 • www.slociderbar.com

Keep your pajamas on and cancel that
silly dentist appointment. Heck, cancel
your whole damn day. It’s International
Ice Cream for Breakfast Day! Yes, this is
actually a thing. Wake up on the sweet
side of the bed and visit any of three Doc
Burnstein’s Ice Cream Labs on Saturday,
Feb. 2, starting at 9 a.m. for a special
taste of the Doc’s new maple bacon ice
cream flavor in honor of the very real
International Ice Cream for Breakfast
Day. I recommend you try it in a waffle
cone, of course (part of a complete
breakfast). Did I mention there will also
be prizes for the first 50 customers? Did
I mention this actually checks out as a
very real holiday? Oh, America. You do
have good points.
Doc Burnstein’s locations include
114 W. Branch St., Arroyo Grande; 860
Higuera St., San Luis Obispo; 725 E.
Betteravia St., Santa Maria. For more
information, go to docburnsteins.com. ∆
Hayley Thomas Cain does not recommend
mint chip with orange juice. She can be
reached at hthomas@newtimesslo.com.

LegaL Notices
ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME CASE
NUMBER: 18CV-0752

To all interested persons:
Petitioner: Cecile Rogers Demartini filed a petition with this court
for a decree changing names as
follows: PRESENT NAME: Cecile
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A Rogers Demartini to PROPOSED
DEED OF TRUST DATED 4/27/2018. NAME: Cecile Blancarte
UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO
PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY
BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF
YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF
THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction
sale to the highest bidder for cash,
cashier’s check drawn on a state
or national bank, check drawn by
a state or federal credit union, or a
check drawn by a state or federal
savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank
specified in Section 5102 of the
Financial Code and authorized to do
business in this state will be held by
the duly appointed trustee as shown
below, of all right, title, and interest
conveyed to and now held by the
trustee in the hereinafter described
property under and pursuant to a
Deed of Trust described below. NOTICE: ALL AMERICAN FORECLOSURE
SERVICE, AS TRUSTEE, WILL NOT
ACCEPT THIRD PARTY ENDORSED
CASHIER’S CHECKS. ALL CASHIER’S
CHECKS MUST BE PAYABLE DIRECTLY TO ALL AMERICAN FORECLOSURE
SERVICE. The sale will be made, but
without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title,
possession, or encumbrances, to
pay the remaining principal sum of
the note(s) secured by the Deed of
Trust, with interest and late charges
thereon, as provided in the note(s),
advances, under the terms of the
Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees,
charges and expenses of the Trustee
for the total amount (at the time of
the initial publication of the Notice
of Sale) reasonably estimated to be
set forth below. The amount may be
greater on the day of sale. Trustor:
Takken Investment Properties, LLC,
Duly Appointed Trustee: All American Foreclosure Service. Recorded
5/5/2017 as Instrument No. 2017019825 of Official Records in the
office of the Recorder of San Luis
Obispo County, California. Date of
Sale: 1/31/2019 at 11:00 AM. Place
of Sale: In the breezeway adjacent to
the County General Services Bldg.
located at 1087 Santa Rosa St., San
Luis Obispo, CA 93401. Amount of
unpaid balance and other charges:
$308,388.57. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 668 Higuera Street, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401. A.P.N.: 002-422020. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other
common designation, if any, shown
above. If no street address or other
common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property
may be obtained by sending a written
request to the beneficiary within 10
days of the date of first publication
of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee
is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and
exclusive remedy shall be the return
of the monies paid to the trustee and
the successful bidder shall have no
recourse. If the sale is set aside for
any reason, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser shall
have no further recourse against the
Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the
Mortgagee’s Attorney. NOTICE TO
POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien,
you should understand that there are
risks involved in bidding at a trustee
auction. You will be bidding on a lien,
not on the property itself. Placing
the highest bid at a trustee auction
does not automatically entitle you
to free and clear ownership of the
property. You should also be aware
that the lien being auctioned off may
be a junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or may
be responsible for paying off all liens
senior to the lien being auctioned off,
before you can receive clear title to
the property. You are encouraged to
investigate the existence, priority,
and size of outstanding liens that
may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office
or a title insurance company, either
of which may charge you a fee for
this information. If you consult either
of these resources, you should be
aware that the same lender may hold
more than one mortgage or deed of
trust on the property. NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a
court, pursuant to Section 2924g of
the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee
sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a
courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and,
if applicable, the rescheduled time
and date for the sale of this property,
you may call (805) 543-7088 or visit
this Internet Web site www.eloandata.
com , using the file number assigned
to this case 41988. Information
about postponements that are very
short in duration or that occur close
in time to the scheduled sale may not
immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet
Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the
scheduled sale. Date: 12/28/2018.
All American Foreclosure Service,
1363 Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401 (805) 543-7088. Sheryle
A. Machado, Certified Trustee Sale
Officer.
January 10, 17, & 24, 2019

THE COURT ORDERS: that all
persons interested in this matter
appear before this court at the
hearing indicated below to show
cause, if any, why the petition
for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described
above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for
the objection at least two days
before the matter is scheduled to
be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the
petition should not be granted. If
no written objection is timely filed,
the court may grant the petition
without a hearing.

LegaL Notices
NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
03/21/2019, Time: 9:00 am,
Dept. 2 at the Superior Court of
California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93408. A copy of
this Order to Show Cause shall be
published at least once each week
for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of
general circulation, printed in this
county: New Times
Date: January 17, 2019
/s/: Ginger E. Garrett, Judge of the
Superior Court
January 24, 31, February 7, & 14,
2019

ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME CASE
NUMBER: 19CVP-0009

To all interested persons:
Petitioner: Jesus Espinoza filed a
petition with this court for a decree
changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Jesus Villegas to PROPOSED NAME: Jesus Espinoza

LegaL Notices
STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT
OF USE OF
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS
NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2019-0045
OLD FILE NO. 2015-1187
Central Coast Catch, 2409 Blvd
Del Campo, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San
Luis Obispo County on 05-012015. The following person has
abandoned the use of the fictitious
business name: Jo Oliver (2409
Blvd Del Campo, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401). This business was
conducted by An Individual /s/
Jo Oliver, Owner. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 01-04-2019.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. By JF. Brown,
Deputy Clerk.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter apSTATEMENT OF
pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause,
ABANDONMENT
if any, why the petition for change
of name should not be granted.
OF USE OF
Any person objecting to the name
changes described above must file
FICTITIOUS
a written objection that includes
BUSINESS
the reasons for the objection at
least two days before the matter
NAME
is scheduled to be heard and must
NEW FILE NO. 2019-0067
appear at the hearing to show
OLD
FILE
NO. 2014-1696
cause why the petition should not
be granted. If no written objection Oceano Smog Test Center, 1189
is timely filed, the court may grant Pike Lane, Unit 3, Oceano , CA
Date: December 13, 2018
92114. San Luis Obispo County.
/s/: Barry T. Labarbera, Judge of the petition without a hearing.
The fictitious business name rethe Superior Court
NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: ferred to above was filed in San
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019
03/13/2019, Time: 9:30 am, Luis Obispo County on 08-04Dept. P2 at the Superior Court of 2014. The following person has
ORDER TO SHOW
California, County of San Luis Obis- abandoned the use of the fictitious
CAUSE FOR CHANGE po, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, business name: Gregg Alan Teller
CA 93446. A copy of this Order to (5807 Duluth Ave., San Diego,
OF NAME CASE
Show Cause shall be published at CA 92114). This business was
least once each week for four sucby An Individual /s/
NUMBER: 18CVP-0409 cessive weeks prior to the date set conducted
Gregg Alan Teller. This statement
To all interested persons:
for hearing on the petition in the was filed with the County Clerk of
Petitioner: Kyle Wayne Edward following newspaper of general
San Luis Obispo on 01-08-2019.
Huseby filed a petition with this circulation, printed in this county:
I hereby certify that this copy is
court for a decree changing New Times
a correct copy of the statement
names as follows: PRESENT
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
NAME: Kyle Wayne Edward Huse- Date: January 15, 2019
Gong, County Clerk. By S. King,
by to PROPOSED NAME: Kyle Ed- /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Deputy Clerk.
Superior Court
ward Sorrow
January 24, 31, February 7, & 14, January 17, 24, 31, & February
7, 2019
THE COURT ORDERS: that all 2019
persons interested in this matter
STATEMENT OF
STATEMENT
OF
appear before this court at the
hearing indicated below to show
ABANDONMENT
ABANDONMENT
cause, if any, why the petition
OF USE OF
OF USE OF
for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting
FICTITIOUS
FICTITIOUS
to the name changes described
BUSINESS
BUSINESS
above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for
NAME
NAME
the objection at least two days
NEW FILE NO. 2018-2995
NEW FILE NO. 2019-0139
before the matter is scheduled to
OLD FILE NO. 2018-0708
OLD FILE NO. 2018-0142
be heard and must appear at the Wine History Project of San Luis
Stellar Vision Inc, Raymond &
hearing to show cause why the Obispo County, 1185 Pacific
Associates, 860 Jessica Pl., Nipetition should not be granted. If Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.
pomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo
no written objection is timely filed, San Luis Obispo County. The fictiCounty. The fictitious business
the court may grant the petition tious business name referred to
name referred to above was filed
without a hearing.
above was filed in San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo County on 01County on 03-08-2018. The follow16-2018. The following person
NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: ing person has abandoned the use has abandoned the use of the ficti02/27/2019, Time: 9:30 am, of the fictitious business name: The tious business name: Stellar Vision
Dept. P2 at the Superior Court History Center of San Luis Obispo Inc (860 Jessica Pl., Nipomo, CA
of California, County of San Luis County (696 Monterey Street, 93444). This business was conObispo, 901 Park Street, Paso San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This ducted by A Corporation /s/ Stellar
Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this business was conducted by A CA Vision Inc, Ruby Boulton-Raymond,
Corporation /s/ The History Center
Order to Show Cause shall be pubof San Luis Obispo County, Thomas President. This statement was filed
lished at least once each week for Kessler, Executive Director. This with the County Clerk of San Luis
four successive weeks prior to the statement was filed with the County Obispo on 01-15-2019. I hereby
date set for hearing on the peti- Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12- certify that this copy is a correct
tion in the following newspaper of 26-2018. I hereby certify that this copy of the statement on file in my
general circulation, printed in this copy is a correct copy of the state- office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, County
county: New Times
ment on file in my office. (Seal) Clerk. By S. King, Deputy Clerk.
Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By J. January 24, 31, February 7, & 14,
Date: December 31, 2018
Goble, Deputy Clerk.
2019
/s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019
Superior Court
STATEMENT OF
STATEMENT OF
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
01/31/2019, Time: 9:00 am,
Dept. 2 at the Superior Court of
California, County of San Luis
Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.
A copy of this Order to Show
Cause shall be published at least
once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set
for hearing on the petition in the
following newspaper of general
circulation, printed in this county:
New Times

ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME CASE
NUMBER: 19CV-0029

ABANDONMENT
OF USE OF
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS
NAME

To all interested persons:
Petitioner: Cindi Jo Juber filed a
NEW FILE NO. 2018-3005
petition with this court for a decree
OLD FILE NO. 2018-2135
changing names as follows: PRES- Carlos Leonidas Fernandez Jr, 176
ENT NAME: Cindi Jo Juber to PRO- E Dana St., Nipomo, CA 93444.
POSED NAME: Cindy Jo Schwartz San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to
THE COURT ORDERS: that all per- above was filed in San Luis Obispo
sons interested in this matter ap- County on 08-27-2018. The followpear before this court at the hear- ing person has abandoned the use
ing indicated below to show cause, of the fictitious business name:
if any, why the petition for change Carlos Leonidas Jr Fernandez,
of name should not be granted. Carlos Leonidas Bey (176 E Dana
Any person objecting to the name St., Nipomo, CA 93444). This busichanges described above must file ness was conducted by A Trust
a written objection that includes /s/ Carlos Leonidas Bey, Trustee.
the reasons for the objection at This statement was filed with the
least two days before the matter County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on
is scheduled to be heard and must 12-27-2018. I hereby certify that
appear at the hearing to show this copy is a correct copy of the
cause why the petition should not statement on file in my office. (Seal)
be granted. If no written objection Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By D,
is timely filed, the court may grant Chavez, Deputy Clerk.
the petition without a hearing.
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OLD FILE NO. 2016-0981
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Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis
Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was
filed in San Luis Obispo County on
04-15-2016. The following person
has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Linda Collison
(211 Hinds Ave., Pismo Beach, CA
93449). This business was conducted by An Individual /s/ Linda
Collison. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-18-2019. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. By JF. Brown, Deputy Clerk.
January 24, 31, February 7, & 14,
2019

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons
who may otherwise be interested
in the will or estate, or both, of:
JOSEPHINE H. GONZALEZ
AN AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ERMA GONZALEZ in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.
The Petition for Probate requests
that ERMA GONZALEZ be appointed as personal representative
to administer the estate of the
decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be
admitted to probate. The will and
any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under
the Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to
take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking
certain very important actions,
however, the personal representative will be required to give notice
to interested persons unless they
have waived notice or consented
to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority
will be granted unless an interested
person files an objection to the
petition and shows good cause
why the court should not grant the
authority.
A HEARING on the
petition will be held in this court
as follows: March 5, 2019 at 9:00
a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court
of California, County of San Luis
Obispo, located at 1035 Palm St.,
Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA
93408.
IF YOU OBJECT to
the granting of the petition, you
should appear at the hearing and
state your objections or file written
objections with the court before the
hearing. Your appearance may be
in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the
decedent, you must file your claim
with the court and mail a copy to
the personal representative appointed by the court within the later
of either (1) four months from the
date of first issuance of letters to
a general personal representative,
as defined in section 58(b) of the
California Probate Code, or (2) 60
days from the date of mailing or
personal delivery to you of notice
under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California
statutes and legal authority may
affect your rights as a creditor.
You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California
law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE
the file kept by the court. If you are
a person interested in the estate,
you may file with the court a formal
Request for Special Notice (form
DE-154) of the filing of an inventory
and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided
in Probate Code section 1250. A
Request for Special Notice form is
available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner:
Shannon M. Bio
1212 Marsh Street, Suite 3
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
January 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2905
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/17/2013)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, EYE CANDY GLASSWORKS, 3291 Pickwick Lane,
Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis
Obispo County. Claudia Ariss
(3291 Pickwick Lane, Cambria,
CA 93428). This business is
conducted by An Individual /s/
Claudia A. Ariss. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 12-13-18.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. A. Bautista,
Deputy. Exp. 12-13-23.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2923
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/17/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, ALONSO’S SERVICES, 809 S. 7th Ave., Avenal, CA
93204. San Luis Obispo County.
Alonso Carranza Enriquez (809
S. 7th Ave., Avenal, CA 93204).
This business is conducted
by An Individual /s/ Alonso Enriquez, Owner. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 12-17-18.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy,
Deputy. Exp. 12-17-23.
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2977
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(04/04/2013)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, THE HURRICANE
KITCHEN, 2400 El Camino Real,
Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis
Obispo County. The Hurricane
Kitchen, LLC (1880 L Street, San
Miguel, CA 93451). This business
is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ The Hurricane Kitchen,
LLC, Anthony Richard Verhagen.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 12-20-18. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. A. Gibson, Deputy. Exp.
12-20-23.
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2992
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, COGAN FAMILY
CELLARS, 5450 Edna Road, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis
Obispo County. Ronald James Cogan, Sheree Karen Cogan (4590
Spanish Oaks Drive, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A Married
Couple /s/ Ronald James Cogan.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 12-24-18. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy. Exp.
12-24-23.
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-3001
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, SLJ DETAIL & FABRICATION, 1618 Shepherd Dr.,
Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis
Obispo County. Susan Lea Johnson (1618 Shepherd Dr., Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is
conducted by An Individual /s/ Susan Lea Johnson. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 12-27-18.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. S. King,
Deputy. Exp. 12-27-23.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-3006
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(06/01/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, PORT SAN LUIS
BOATYARD, 3915 Avila Beach
Drive, Avila Beach, CA 93424.
San Luis Obispo County. Brent
Lintner (2 Lighthouse Road, Avila
Beach, CA 93424). This business
is conducted by An Individual /s/
Brent Lintner. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 12-27-18. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in
my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. J. Goble, Deputy.
Exp. 12-27-23.
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-3015
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/28/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, TOP DOG OF CALIFORNIA, 753 Shell Beach Road,
Shell Beach, CA 93449. San
Luis Obispo County. Michelle
Meri Gibbons (1253 Roxy Ave.,
Orcutt, CA 93455). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Michelle Meri Gibbons.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 12-28-18. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp.
12-28-23.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-3018
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/31/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, ESTERO BAY
NEWS, 1879 10th St., Los
Osos, CA 93402. San Luis
Obispo County. Dean William Sullivan (1879 10th St., Los Osos,
CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Dean
William Sullivan. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 12-31-18.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. S. King,
Deputy. Exp. 12-31-23.
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-3019
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/31/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CENTRAL COAST
JOURNAL, 25 Johe Lane, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San
Luis Obispo County. Thomas
Leroy Meinhold, Meinhold Lea
Juliette (25 Johe Lane, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by A Married
Couple /s/ Juliette Meinhold,
Owner. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 12-31-18. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana,
Deputy. Exp. 12-31-23.
January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-3026
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, GREEN GATE
FARMING COMPANY, 445 Green
Gate Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County. Darren Wayne Shetler, TR
(445 Green Gate Rd., San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A Trust /s/
Darren W. Shetler, TR, Trustee.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 12-31-18. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp.
12-31-23.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0004
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/02/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CENTRAL COAST
BUSINESS PAPER, 1955 Oak
Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420.
San Luis Obispo County. Joe
Chufar (602 Farroll Rd., Grover
Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Joe Chufar, Owner.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-02-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp.
01-02-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0006
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/02/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, ADVENTURE CLUB
SLO, INC., 395 Zanzabar St.,
Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis
Obispo County. Adventure Club
SLO, Inc. (395 Zanzabar St.,
Morro Bay, CA 93442). This
business is conducted by A CA
Corporation /s/ Adventure Club
SLO, Inc., John Gange, President. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-02-19. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in
my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy.
Exp. 01-02-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0018
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/02/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, COASTAL WINDOW
WASHING, 1221 Norswing Dr.,
Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis
Obispo County. Jeremiah Sidney Reynolds (1221 Norswing
Dr., Oceano, CA 93445). This
business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Jeremiah Reynolds.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-03-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp.
01-03-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0007
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, FULL VIEW GAMES,
1260 Stafford St., San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis
Obispo County. Scott Lindy Digirolamo (1260 Stafford St., San
Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This
business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Scott L Digirolamo.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-02-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy. Exp.
01-02-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0019
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, TRAUMA AWARE
CLINICAL THERAPY, TACT, SLOTACT, TACTSLO, 1115 Toro St.
Ste. A, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Tyler Sullivan Hartford (566 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo, CA
93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Tyler
Sullivan Hartford. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-03-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. S. King,
Deputy. Exp. 01-03-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0009
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/02/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CREATE ELEMENT,
327 Christina Way, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis
Obispo County. Jason Chad
Moyer (327 Christina Way, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This
business is conducted by An
Individual /s/ Jason Moyer. This
statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-02-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy. Exp.
01-02-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February
7, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0012
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/02/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, THE WATTRY ENERGY COMPANY, 1010 Paseo
De Caballo, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93405. San Luis Obispo
County. Charles Nicholas Watry
(1010 Paseo De Caballo, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This
business is conducted by An
Individual /s/ C. Nicholas Watry.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-02-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp.
01-02-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0017
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/03/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, BEGR8 FITNESS, 543 Fieldview Pl., Arroyo
Grande, CA 93420-3510. San
Luis Obispo County. Sarema Roxanne Wooldridge (543 Fieldview
Pl., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420).
This business is conducted by
An Individual /s/ Sarema R.
Wooldridge. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 01-03-19. I
hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana,
Deputy. Exp. 01-03-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0021
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/31/2008)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, LULU LUXE, 864
Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401. San Luis Obispo
County. Yowza Inc. (6515 Via
Venado Rd., San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401). This business is
conducted by A CA Corporation
/s/ Yowza Inc., Eron Betan, CEO.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-03-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp.
01-03-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0040
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/03/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CWA STUDIOS,
1668 Sydney Street, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis
Obispo County. Christopher William Allen (1668 Sydney Street,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).
This business is conducted by
An Individual /s/ Christopher
Allen, Owner. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-04-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 01-04-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February
7, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0041
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, BLAIR’S REPAIR, 1148 3rd St., Los Osos,
CA 93402. San Luis Obispo
County. David Daryl Blair (1148
3rd St., Los Osos, CA 93402).
This business is conducted by
An Individual /s/ Daryl Blair.
This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-04-19. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in
my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy.
Exp. 01-04-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0044
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/04/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CENTRAL COAST
CATCH CSF, 1864 Oceanaire
Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA
93405. San Luis Obispo County. Kevin Scott Hall (1864 Oceanaire Drive, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93405). This business is
conducted by An Individual /s/
Kevin Hall. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 01-04-19.
I hereby certify that this copy
is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong, County Clerk. JF.
Brown, Deputy. Exp. 01-04-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0024
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, DOG CAMP SLO,
1647 9th Street, Los Osos, CA
93402. San Luis Obispo County.
James M Bishop (1647 9th
Street, Los Osos, CA 93402).
This business is conducted by
An Individual /s/ James Bishop.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-03-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 0103-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0051
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/10/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, KB SALES, 78 Villa
Court, Pismo Beach, CA 93449.
San Luis Obispo County. Kristen Ann Maag (78 Villa Court,
Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This
business is conducted by An
Individual /s/ Kristen Ann Maag,
Owner. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 01-07-19. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana,
Deputy. Exp. 01-07-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

LegaL Notices
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0055
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2000)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, CTD CREATIVE, 220 Miller Cir., Arroyo
Grande, CA 93420. San Luis
Obispo County. Christopher Lee
Thompson (220 Miller Cir., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This
business is conducted by An
Individual /s/ Christopher Lee
Thompson. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 01-07-19. I
hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez,
Deputy. Exp. 01-07-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0060
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, WILD BREAD CO.,
542 N. 14th St., Unit B, Grover
Beach, CA 93433. San Luis
Obispo County. Nelson John De
Mille (542 N. 14th St., Unit B,
Grover Beach, CA 93433). This
business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Nelson John De Mille.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-07-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. S. King, Deputy. Exp. 0107-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0052
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(11/18/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CELEBRATIONS BY
JULIA, 530 Westmont Ave., San
Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San
Luis Obispo County. Julia Katherine Freet (530 Westmont Ave.,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405).
This business is conducted by
An Individual /s/ Julia Freet,
Owner/ CEO . This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-07-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro,
Deputy. Exp. 01-07-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0062
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/01/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, WILLIAM NEVILLE
MACHINING, 840 Capitolio Way,
Suite B, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
William Paul Neville (1702 Upper Lopez Canyon Road, Arroyo
Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ William Paul Neville.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-08-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 0108-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February
7, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0053
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, MORRO BAY
MUSHROOMS, 351 Mindoro St.,
Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis
Obispo County. Rosa E Zunno
(351 Mindoro St., Morro Bay,
CA 93442). This business is
conducted by An Individual /s/
Rosa Zunno. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-07-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy,
Deputy. Exp. 01-07-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0054
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, WAZWO DESIGN,
2110 Parkhill Road, Santa
Margarita, CA 95460. San Luis
Obispo County. Lauren Waswo
(2110 Parkhill Road, Santa
Margarita, CA 95460). This
business is conducted by An
Individual /s/ Lauren Waswo.
This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-07-19. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in
my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. S. King, Deputy.
Exp. 01-07-24.
January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0066
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/18/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, OCEANO SMOG
TEST CENTER, 1180 Pike Lane,
Suite 3, Oceano, CA 93445. San
Luis Obispo County. Justin Allen
Teller (1229 Galaxy St., Nipomo,
CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Justin
Allen Teller. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 01-08-19. I
hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. S. King,
Deputy. Exp. 01-08-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February
7, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0070
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, TOBACCO CASTLE,
2179 10th St., Los Osos, CA
93402. San Luis Obispo County.
Faraj Akkari (464 Kern Ave.,
Morro Bay, CA 93442). This
business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Faraj Akkari, Owner.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-08-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp.
01-08-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February
7, 2019

LegaL Notices
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

LegaL Notices
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0071
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/08/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, PHO KING VIETNAMESE
RESTAURANT, 1800 E. Grand, Suite
A, Grover Beach, CA 93433. San
Luis Obispo County. Lieu Thi Xuan
Nguyen, Dung Thi Phan (15710 Via
Esmond, San Lorenzo, CA 94580).
This business is conducted by A
Married Couple /s/ Lieu Thi Xuan
Nguyen, Owner. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 01-08-19. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 0108-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FILE NO. 2019-0085
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/08/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, FAST AND COLD EXPRESS,
625 Tank Farm Rd., San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo
County. Hilding H. Larson (625 Tank
Farm Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA
93401). This business is conducted
by An Individual /s/ Hilding H. Larson. This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-09-19. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. King,
Deputy. Exp. 01-09-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0097
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(12/30/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, THE PETAL PIRATE, 204
Olive Street Apt. B, Paso Robles,
CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County.
Annie Rose Cross (204 Olive Street
Apt. B, Paso Robles, CA 93446).
This business is conducted by An
Individual /s/ Annie Cross. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 01-1019. I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp.
01-10-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FILE NO. 2019-0073
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, MOUNTAIN COAST
MEDIA, 174 Briscos Rd. #7, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis
Obispo County. Intomore Media
LLC (174 Briscos Rd. #7, Arroyo
Grande, CA 93420). This business
is conducted by A CO Limited Liability Company /s/ Intomore Media
LLC, Matthew John Fons-Managing
Member. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-09-19. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.
D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 01-09-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0078
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, RAGTAG WINE CO.,
RAGTAG WINE COMPANY, RAGTAG WINERY, 695 Clarion Court,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San
Luis Obispo County. Sarita Bonita
LLC (695 Clarion Court, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401). This business
is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Sarita Bonita
LLC, Deron T. Brewer, Managing
Member. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-09-19. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.
L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 01-09-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0079
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(04/16/1997)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, GARCIA’S GARDENING,
350 Black Hawk Way, Nipomo, CA
93444. San Luis Obispo County.
Christopher Ray Garcia (350 Black
Hawk Way, Nipomo, CA 93444).
This business is conducted by An
Individual /s/ Christopher Ray Garcia, Owner. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-09-19. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.
C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp. 01-09-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0110
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/04/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, JEWELL BOOKKEEPING,
11 Mariposa Drive, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Jeff D Whitener (11 Mariposa Drive,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This
business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Jeff Whitener. This statement was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-11-19. I
hereby certify that this copy is a
correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp.
01-11-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING
The San Luis Obispo Architectural Review
Commission will hold a Regular Meeting, MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 4, 2019, AT 5:00 p.m. in the 919
Conference Room 1, Main Lobby, of Community
Development, 919 Palm Street on the item(s) listed
below:
PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS:
Architectural review of the single-family residential
building program and typical landscape plans
proposed for 64 upper lots within the Righetti
subdivision, including requested rear yard, lot
coverage, fence, and driveway exceptions, and a
determination that the project is consistent with
the certified Final EIR for the Orcutt Area Specific
Plan and adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration
for the Righetti Vesting Tentative Tract Map; Project
Address: 3987 Orcutt Road. Case #: ARCH-19492018, R-1-SP zones (Orcutt Area Specific Plan);
Travis Fuentez, applicant.
Contact: Shawna Scott – 805-781-7176 – sscott@
slocity.org
The Architectural Review Commission may also
discuss other hearing or business items before
or after the item(s) listed above. If you challenge
the proposed action in court, you may be limited
to raising only those issues you or someone else
raised at the public hearing described in this notice,
or in written correspondence delivered to the
Architectural Review Commission at, or prior to, the
public hearing.
The report(s) will be available for review in the
Community Development Office and online in
advance of the meeting at https://www.slocity.org/
government/advisory-bodies/agendas-and-minutes/
architectural-review-commission. Please call 805781-7170 for more information, or to request an
agenda report.
January 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0111
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/22/2018)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, CORAZON 805 TACOS,
967 Humbert Ave., San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Pedro Arias Lopez, Crescencio Hernandez Villar (967 Humbert Ave.,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This
business is conducted by A General
Partnership /s/ Pedro Arias Lopez,
General Partner. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 01-11-19. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy. Exp. 0111-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

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Wastewater Pretreatment StandardsViolations
A federally mandated industrial wastewater monitoring program is in
effect in the City of San Luis Obispo. The City of San Luis Obispo’s
Pretreatment Program was established to provide protection to
the Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) and wastewater
collection system by controlling the introduction of non-domestic
wastes to its facility and system. This program is required by law
and uses the Federal General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR
403) and the City’s Sewer Use Ordinance to enforce the general
discharge prohibitions and specific Categorical Pretreatment
Standards.
To fulfill public participation requirements of the Pretreatment
Program, significant violators of the wastewater discharge
regulations must be published in the local newspaper at least
once a year. Therefore, those industrial users of the City sewer
system who have significantly violated discharge regulations will
be published with a brief summary of the nature of the violation(s).
The City of San Luis Obispo has found the following industrial/
business facilities to have had significant violations during 2018:

ORDINANCE NO. 1657 (2019 SERIES)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO,
CALIFORNIA APPROVING FOLLOW-UP
ITEMS FROM THE COUNCIL’S APPROVAL
OF THE COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE TO THE
CITY’S ZONING REGULATIONS (TITLE 17)
OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE INCLUDING TINY
HOMES, ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS
OWNER OCCUPANCY AND LOT COVERAGE
REQUIREMENTS, ELECTRIC VEHICLE
PARKING, DOWNTOWN OVERLAY ZONE,
AND ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS CLEAN
UP ITEMS, INCLUDING ADOPTION OF AN
ADDENDUM TO A NEGATIVE DECLARATION
OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, AS
REPRESENTED IN THE STAFF REPORT AND
ATTACHMENTS DATED FEBRUARY 5, 2019
(ZONING REGULATIONS, GENP-0327-2017)
On November 27, 2018, the Council of the City of
San Luis Obispo voted 5-0 as follows to introduce
Ordinance No. 1657 (2019 Series):
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:

On January 8, 2019, the City Council voted 5-0 to
provide minor modifications to the ordinance to
address energy efficiency for Tiny Homes on Wheels
for Ordinance No. 1657 (2019 Series):
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:

Ordinance No. 1657 (2019 Series) is a City enacted
Ordinance amending Title 17 of the Municipal Code
(Zoning Regulations) to implement the Land Use and
Circulation Element (LUCE), update and modernize
the Zoning Regulations to include best practices
and address minor miscellaneous clean up items.
The Zoning Regulations are the key tool used to
implement land use policy, as well as circulation
policies related to parking management, transit,
bicycling, and pedestrian accommodation. Following
adoption of the LUCE, Planning staff in consultation
with residents, architects, contractors, developers,
advisory bodies and the Council identified the land
use policies most effectively implemented via
changes to the Zoning Regulations.
The Council must vote again to approve this
ordinance before it can take effect. That action
is tentatively scheduled for February 5, 2019, at a
Regular City Council meeting to begin at 6:00 p.m.
in the Council Chamber of City Hall, 990 Palm Street.
Copies of the complete ordinance are available in the
City Clerk’s Office in City Hall and online at www.
slocity.org. For more information, contact Kyle Bell
at 781-7524.
Teresa Purrington
City Clerk
January 24, 2019

California Polytechnic State University
Discharge of Ammonia, in violation of Municipal
Code chapter 130.08, section 040.

SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY COUNCIL
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The San Luis Obispo City Council invites all interested persons to
attend a public meeting on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 6:00 p.m.
in the City Hall Council Chamber, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo,
California, relative to the following:
650 Tank Farm Road - General Plan amendment; Applicant Agera Grove Investments, LLC:
• Adopt a Resolution to; adopt the final Mitigated Negative
Declaration of Environmental Review to approve the 650 Tank Farm
Mixed-Use Project; Airport Area Specific Plan Amendment, General
Plan Amendment, and the associated Conversion Impact Report;
and
• Introduce an Ordinance entitled, “An Ordinance of the City
Council of the City of San Luis Obispo, California, rezoning property
at 650 Tank Farm Road from Business Park (BP-SP) and MediumDensity Residential (R-2-SP) to Service Commercial (C-S-SP) and
making associated amendments to the Airport Area Specific Plan to
be consistent with the 650 Tank Farm Mixed-Use Project conceptual
development plan and with the General Plan as amended”
For more information, you are invited to contact Rachel Cohen of the
City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7574 or by
email at rcohen@slocity.org
Teresa Purrington
City Clerk
City of San Luis Obispo
January 24, 2019

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A “significant violation” or “significant non-compliance” has been
defined as any of the following: chronic violations of wastewater
discharge limits (66% or more of all measurements taken during
a six-month period exceed the daily maximum limit or the average
limit for the same pollutant parameter); technical review criteria
violations (33% or more of all measurements for each pollutant
parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the
product of the daily average maximum limit or the average limit
multiplied by the applicable technical review criteria); any other
violation of a pretreatment effluent limit that has caused interference
with or pass through; any discharge that has caused imminent
endangerment to human health, welfare or the environment, or that
has resulted in the POTW’s exercise of its emergency authority;
failure to meet within 90 days after the scheduled date a compliance
milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement
order for starting construction or attaining final compliance; failure
to provide within 30 days after the due date required reports; failure
to report accurately non-compliance; or any other violation which
will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local
pretreatment program.
Additional information regarding the Pretreatment Program
is available by contacting: Benjamin Marquart, Environmental
Programs Manager at (805) 781-7425.

January 24, 2019

CONSUMER INDEX
The San Luis Obispo Municipal Code Chapter 5.44 entitled
“Mobilehome Park Rent Stabilization” requires that the monthly
Consumer Price Index (CPI) percentage (%) be published as a basis
for establishing rent increases. The monthly space rent in mobile
home parks may not be increased more than once each year based
on the CPI % change, or 9%, whichever is less. The CPI monthly data
for Los Angeles - Riverside - Orange Co. is used for San Luis Obispo.

Year Ending
October
2018
4.1

NOVEMBER 2018
PERCENT CHANGE

November
2018
3.6

1 Month Ending
November
2018
-0.3

For further information regarding the CPI%, please contact the CPI
Hotline at (415) 625-2270.
Teresa Purrington
City Clerk
City of San Luis Obispo
January 24, 2019

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors
Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. All items
are advertised for 9:00 a.m. To find out placement
of this item on the Board of Supervisors Agenda,
go to the County’s website at www.slocounty.
ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled
hearing date.
WHAT:
Hearing to consider an appeal by Marvin
Dorin of the Planning Department Hearing
Officer’s approval of a Minor Use Permit /
Coastal Development Permit (DRC2018-00096)
to allow for the construction of a 599-squarefoot detached garage with 599-square-foot
guesthouse on the second floor above the
garage. The project also includes a modification
of the distance standard of 50 feet to allow the
guesthouse to be located approximately 72 feet
from the primary residence. The proposal will
require the removal of one non-native pine tree
and one Monterey pine tree. The project will
result in the disturbance of approximately 1,500
square feet on an approximate 11,300-squarefoot parcel. The proposed project is within the
Residential Single-Family land use category and
is located at 2471 Banbury Road, approximately
1,100 feet west of the Burton Drive/Newport
Avenue intersection, within the community of
Cambria. The site is in the North Coast planning
area.
County File Number: DRC2018-00096
Assessor Parcel Number: 023-371-023
Supervisorial District: 2
Date Accepted: August 17, 2018
WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County
Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey St., Room
#D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The
Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of
Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the hearing all interested
persons may express their views for or against, or to change
the proposal.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: You may contact Stephanie
Fuhs, Project Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County
Department of Planning and Building, 976 Osos Street, Room
200, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 781-5600. The
staff report will be available for review the Wednesday before
the scheduled hearing date on the County’s website at www.
slocounty.ca.gov.
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION: Also to be considered
is the environmental determination that the project is
categorically exempt under CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines
Section 15061(b)(2). A Notice of Exemption has been prepared
pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062.
COASTAL APPEALABLE: If the County approves this project,
that action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal
Commission. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by
Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.
WHO:
WHEN:

**If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to
raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the
public hearing described in this public notice or in written
correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or
before the public hearing**
DATED: 1/10/2019
TOMMY GONG, COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER
By: /s/ Jamila Brown, Deputy Clerk
January 24, 2019

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
WHO:

San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors

WHEN:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. All
items are advertised for 9:00 a.m. To find
out placement of this item on the Board
of Supervisors Agenda, go to the County’s
website at www.slocounty.ca.gov on the
Wednesday before the scheduled hearing
date.

WHAT:

Hearing to consider an appeal by Vicki
Book & Anne M. Brown of the Planning
Commission’s denial of an appeal of the
Planning Director’s Determination on
density allowance for Commercial Retail and
Residential Multi-Family land use categories
in accordance with the Avila Beach Specific
Plan and Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance
Title 23 as applied to proposed development
SUB2015-00051 (Salucci & Hodge) located at
356 & 360 1st Street, within the community of
Avila Beach.
County File Number: APPL2018-00003
Assessor Parcel Number: 076-217-015
Supervisorial District: 3
Date Accepted: N/A

WHERE:
The hearing will be held in the San Luis
Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055
Monterey St., Room #D170, County Government Center,
San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers
are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey
Streets. At the hearing all interested persons may express
their views for or against, or to change the proposal.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
You may contact Cody
Scheel, Project Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County
Department of Planning and Building, 976 Osos Street,
Room 200, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 7815600. The staff report will be available for review the
Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date on the
County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov.
**If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited
to raising only those issues you or someone else raised
at the public hearing described in this public notice or
in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate
authority at or before the public hearing**
DATED: 1/10/2019
TOMMY GONG, COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER
By: /s/ Jamila Brown, Deputy Clerk
January 24, 2019

NOTICE
TO
PROPOSERS

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING
NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing.
Friday, February 15, 2019 at 09:00 AM. All items are
advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement,
please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805)
781-5600.
WHAT: A request by SBA Communications Corporation (agent
for Sprint) for a Minor Use Permit (DRC2018-00201)
to allow for the co-location to an existing wireless
communications facility consisting of six (6) directional
panel antennas, twelve (12) remote radio units, and one (1)
microwave dish antenna, all to be mounted at a height of
44 feet on an existing 56-foot-tall monopole, located within
an approximate 43-square-foot lease area surrounded by
an existing chain link fence. The project also includes
outdoor equipment cabinets and associated equipment
located on a new concrete pad within an approximate
200-square-foot lease area surrounded by an existing
chain link fence, located approximately 65 feet northwest
of the existing monopole. The proposed project will result
in the disturbance of approximately 300 square feet on
an approximate 230-acre parcel. The proposed project
is within the Agriculture land use category and is located
at 20950 East Highway 46, approximately 1 mile south of
East Highway 46, approximately 9 miles northeast of the
Shandon Urban Reserve Line. The site is in the ShandonCarrizo Sub Area of the North County planning area.
Also to be considered is the environmental determination. The
Environmental Coordinator finds that the previously adopted
Mitigated Negative Declaration is adequate for the purposes
of compliance with CEQA because no substantial changes are
proposed in the project which will require major revision of the
previous Negative Declaration, no substantial changes occur with
respect to the circumstance under which the project is undertaken
which will require major revision of the previous Mitigated Negative
Declaration, and no new information of substantial importance has
been identified which was not known at the time that the previous
Negative Declaration was adopted.
County File Number: DRC2018-00201
Supervisorial District: District 1
Assessor Parcel Number(s): 017-111-014
Date Accepted: 12/07/2018
WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County
Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street,
Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo,
CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on
the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the
meeting all interested persons may express their views
for or against, or to change the proposal.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be made
available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.
org. You may also contact Cody Scheel, Project Manager in the
Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by
telephone at (805) 781-5600.
TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING
This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent
agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent
agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single
motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public
hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the
address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday,
February 8, 2019 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the
language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2018-00201.”
If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising
only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing
described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered
to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.
Nicole Retana, Secretary
Planning Department Hearing
January 24, 2019
WHO:
WHEN:

PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the
City Clerk, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, California,
until 2:00 p.m., on Friday, February 15, 2019 as
determined by www.time.gov for performing work
as follows:
Preparation of Sea Level Rise Vulnerability
Assessment and Adaptation Study,
General Plan Update, Local Coastal Plan
Update, and Corresponding Update of the
Zoning Code
The City of Pismo Beach requests proposals from
qualified consultants for preparation of an update to
the General Plan, Local Coastal Program (LCP), and
Zoning Code. It is anticipated that one firm, or a team
of qualified firms, will be selected to perform all tasks
related to the General Plan Update, including preparing
necessary technical and policy studies including a Sea
Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation
study, conducting public outreach, producing plan
text and illustrations, and coordinating review by
the public and interested agencies. The General Plan
Update process will also include an update to the
Local Coastal Program including the Land Use Plan
and Implementation Plan (zoning code). Environmental
review in accordance with CEQA guidelines will be
conducted under separate contract.
Proposal packages may be obtained from the
Community Development Department, Planning
Division, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA 93449
or by calling (805) 773-4658. Printed versions are
available for a non-refundable fee of $20 and PDF
versions may be emailed at no charge. Specific
questions will be accepted in writing up to 72 hours
before the proposal due date and time by emailing
Brian Schwartz, at bschwartz@pismobeach.org.
For non-technical questions contact Elsa Perez at
eperez@pismobeach.org.
ERICA INDERLIED
CITY CLERK
January 24 & 31, 2019

REVISED NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
WHO:
San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors
WHEN: Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. All items are advertised
for 9:00 a.m. To find out placement of this item on the Board of
Supervisors Agenda, go to the County’s website at www.slocounty.
ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date.
WHAT: Hearing to consider an appeal by Vicki Book & Anne M. Brown of
the Planning Commission’s approval of a request by Mike Salucci
& Mike Hodge for a phased Vesting Tentative Tract Map (Tract
3123) and a Development Plan / Coastal Development Permit to
authorize a phased Mixed-Use Planned Development that includes
the re-subdivision of two (2) existing lots into two (2) underlying lots
and four (4) residential airspace condominium units. Also included
in the request are three (3) attached hotel suites as a single building
located on proposed lot 2 ranging in size from approximately
792 square feet to 990 square feet, and four (4) residential
condominiums of approximately 1,150 square feet each located on
proposed lot 1. The project also proposes a height modification
to increase the height of a proposed handicap accessible elevator
shaft (for the condominiums) to approximately one foot above the
allowed building height. The project includes improvements of
the fronting road right-of-way/sidewalk to provide for a driveway
transition, a handicap access ramp for the hotel component, and
repair to existing deteriorated improvements. The project will
require the demolition and removal of three existing residences
and will result in the disturbance of the entire 9,613-square-foot
site. The proposed project is within the Residential Multi-Family
and Commercial Retail land use categories and is located at 356 &
360 1st Street, within the community of Avila Beach. The site is in
the Coastal Zone and San Luis Bay Coastal planning area.
County File Number: DRC2015-00051
Assessor Parcel Number: 076-217-015
Supervisorial District: 3
Date Accepted: August 10, 2018
WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of
Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey St., Room #D170, County
Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors
Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey
Streets. At the hearing all interested persons may express their
views for or against, or to change the proposal.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: You may contact Cody Scheel, Project
Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County Department of Planning and Building,
976 Osos Street, Room 200, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 781-5600.
The staff report will be available for review the Wednesday before the
scheduled hearing date on the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov.
Also to be considered is the
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION:
environmental determination that the project is exempt under CEQA, pursuant
to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), General Rule Exemption. The
Environmental Coordinator has determined that it can be seen with certainty
that there is no possibility that the proposed project may have a significant
adverse effect on the environment. A Notice of Exemption has been prepared
pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062.
COASTAL APPEALABLE: If the County approves this project, that action may
be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. Appeals must
be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section
23.01.043.
**If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only
those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in
this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate
authority at or before the public hearing**
DATED: 01/15/2019
TOMMY GONG, COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER
By: /s/ Jamila Brown, Deputy Clerk
January 17, 2019

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING
NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

PUBLIC
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 5:30 p.m., the
Pismo Beach City Council will hold a regular meeting
at City Hall, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach California
in the Council Chamber, during which it will consider
the following:
Applicant: City of Pismo Beach
Description: First reading of an Ordinance that
will expand the existing prohibitions on smoking in
public places within the city in the following areas:
the downtown core, Five Cities Drive/4th Street
commercial area, and Shell Beach Road.
You have a right to comment on this item
and its effect on our community. Interested
persons are invited to appear at the meeting or
otherwise express their views and opinions regarding
the proposed item. An opportunity will be presented
during the agenda item for verbal comments. Written
comments are also welcomed at the meeting or prior
to the meeting. Written comments prepared prior
to the meeting may be submitted to the City Clerk’s
Office by mail or hand-delivery at 760 Mattie Road,
Pismo Beach, CA 93449, by fax at (805) 773-7006, or
by email at citycouncil@pismobeach.org.
Staff reports, plans and other information related to
these projects are available for public review at the
City Clerk’s Office, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA.
The meeting agenda and staff report will be available
no later than the Thursday before the meeting and
may be obtained at City Hall or by visiting www.
pismobeach.org.The Council meeting will be televised
live on Charter Cable Channel 20 and streamed on
the City’s website.
Further information on the above items may be
obtained from or viewed at the City Clerk’s Office
at City Hall, or by telephone at (805) 773-4657, or
by emailing Erica Inderlied, City Clerk, at einderlied@
pismobeach.org.
Erica Inderlied
City Clerk
January 24, 2019

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
County of San Luis Obispo Subdivision Review Board.

WHO:

County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing.

WHO:

WHEN:

Friday, March 1, 2019 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised
for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the
Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT:

A request by Jim Marderosian for a Minor Use Permit
(DRC2018-00208) to allow a washline facility for an existing
commercial citrus operation. The facility would allow
harvested citrus fruit to be washed and cleared of leaves
and other material to reduce Asian Citrus Psyllid, which
is a vector that causes significant crop damage to citrus.
The project will include a 14,900-square-foot steel canopy
building with open sides and will result in the disturbance
of approximately 0.98 acres of a 3.6-acre lease area on
an overall 335-acre parcel. The proposed project is within
the Agriculture land use category and is located at 2080
Los Berros Road, approximately three miles northwest of
the community of Nipomo. The site is in the South County
(Inland) Sub Area of the South County planning area.

WHEN: Monday, March 4, 2019 at 09:00 AM. All items are
advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement,
please call the Department of Planning & Building at
(805) 781-5600.

Also to be considered is the environmental determination that the
project is exempt under CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section
15061(b)(3), General Rule Exemption. The Environmental Coordinator
has determined that it can be seen with certainty that there is no
possibility that the proposed project may have a significant adverse
effect on the environment. A Notice of Exemption has been prepared
pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062.
County File Number: DRC2018-00208
Supervisorial District: District 4
Assessor Parcel Number(s): 075-102-004
Date Accepted: 12/21/2018
WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County
Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street,
Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo,
CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on
the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the
meeting all interested persons may express their views
for or against, or to change the proposal.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be made
available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.
org. You may also contact Stephanie Fuhs, Project Manager, in the
Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by
telephone at (805) 781-5600.
TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING
This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent
agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent
agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single
motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public
hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the
address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday,
February 22, 2019 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the
language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2018-00208.”
If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising
only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing
described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered
to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.
Nicole Retana, Secretary Planning Department Hearing
January 24, 2019

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Ruben and Susan
Garcia for a Lot Line Adjustment (COAL 18-0103) to
adjust the lot lines between two existing parcels
of approximately 31.3 and 3.3 acres each. The
adjustment will result in two parcels of approximately
9.7 and 24.9 acres each. No additional parcels will
result from the adjustment. The proposed project
is within the Agriculture land use category and is
located at 8790 Centra Road, approximately one-half
mile south of the Community of San Miguel. The site
is in the Salinas River Sub Area of the North County
Planning Area.
Also to be considered is the environmental determination. The
Environmental Coordinator finds that the previously adopted
Mitigated Negative Declaration is adequate for the purposes
of compliance with CEQA because no substantial changes are
proposed in the project which will require major revision of the
previous Negative Declaration, no substantial changes occur
with respect to the circumstance under which the project is
undertaken which will require major revision of the previous
Negative Declaration, and no new information of substantial
importance has been identified which was not known at the
time that the previous Negative Declaration was adopted.
County File Number: SUB2018-00064
Supervisorial District: District 1
Assessor Parcel Number(s): 027-121-005, -171-011
Date Accepted: 11/29/2018
WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County
Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey
Street, Room #D170, County Government Center,
San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors
Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa
and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested
persons may express their views for or against, or to
change the proposal.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be
made available on the Planning Department website at www.
sloplanning.org. You may also contact Kathryn Nall, Project
Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the
address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.
If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to
raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the
public hearing described in this public notice or in written
correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or
before the public hearing.
Nicole Retana, Secretary Subdivision Review Board
January 24, 2019

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0112
TRANSACTION BUSINESS
DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, ESSENCE
BEAUTY SUPPLY AND SALON, 847 Oak Park Blvd.,
Pismo Beach, CA 93448.
San Luis Obispo County.
Carla Blnadon (847 Oak
Park Blvd., Pismo Beach,
CA 93448). This business
is conducted by An Individual /s/ Carla Blandon.
This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-11-19. I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp.
01-11-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7, 2019

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NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0115
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/11/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, WIRED LIKE THIS, 3620
Sacramento Drive, Suite 201, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis
Obispo County. United Cerebral
Palsy of SLO County (3620 Sacramento Drive, Suite 201, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401). This business
is conducted by A CA Corporation
/s/ United Cerebral Palsy of SLO
County, Mark T Shaffer, Executive
Director. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-11-19. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.
J. Goble, Deputy. Exp. 01-11-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, & 14,
2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0116
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/14/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, DHARMA REALM SINGING
BOWLS, 1616 Costa Brava, Pismo
Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo
County. John Paul Tucci D’Acquisto
(1616 Costa Brava, Pismo Beach,
CA 93449). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ John
Paul D’Acquisto. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-14-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. A. Bautista,
Deputy. Exp. 01-14-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

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NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0118
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/02/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, VILLA MOTEL, 1670
Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Mahalaxmi Hospitality Inc. (1670
Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA
93401). This business is conducted
by An Individual /s/ Mahalaxmi Hospitality Inc., Vibhuti Viresh Panchal,
President. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-14-19. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.
JF. Brown, Deputy. Exp. 01-14-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FILE NO. 2019-0127
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing business as, SOIL HARMONICS, 141
Suburban Road Ste. C-1, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo
County. Abalone Coast Analytical
Inc. (141 Suburban Road Ste. C-1,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This
business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Abalone Coast Analytical Inc., Amanda Smith, Owner. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 01-1419. I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy.
Exp. 01-14-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0125
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, NIKKOLE MARIE CREATIVE STUDIO, 148 Broad Street,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San
Luis Obispo County. Nikkole Marie
Martin (148 Broad Street, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93405). This business
is conducted by An Individual /s/
Nikkole Martin. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 01-14-19. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 0114-24.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

FILE NO. 2019-0140
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/15/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, RAYMOND & ASSOCIATES, GATEWAY GAZETTE, 860
Jessica Pl., Nipomo, CA 93444.
San Luis Obispo County. Ruby P
Boulton-Raymond, Laurence P Raymond (860 Jessica Pl., Nipomo, CA
93444). This business is conducted
by A General Partnership /s/ Ruby
Boulton-Raymond. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-15-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is a
correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. S. King, Deputy. Exp.
01-15-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, & 14,
2019

Notice is hereby given that the San Luis Coastal Unified School District acting by and through its Board
of Education, will receive proposals up to, but not later than 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 19, 2019,
for Bid #300-Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School and C.L. Smith Elementary School Paving
Projects.
A mandatory pre-bid informational meeting will be conducted on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, at
10:00 a.m. The meeting will start at the Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School located at 1401 San Luis Bay
Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 and conclude at the C.L. Smith Elementary School located at 1375
Balboa Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. Failure to attend will render the bid non-responsive and
subject to rejection by the District.
Proposals shall be received in the Purchasing Office, San Luis Coastal Unified School District, 1500
Lizzie Street, Building C-1, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. Questions regarding Bid #300 may be directed in
writing only to the District Buyer, Karen Bright, at kbright@slcusd.org, and must be submitted by no later
than 10:00 am Tuesday, February 5, 2019. Project documents are available at the San Luis Coastal Online
Planroom at www.asapreprographics.com. The District reserves the right to reject any or all proposals,
or accept or reject any one or more items of a proposal, or to waive any irregularities or informalities in
the proposals.
Kelly Lee; Facilities Analyst San Luis Coastal Unified School District
January 17 & 24, 2019

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FILE NO. 2019-0143
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CESAR’S LANDSCAPING, 1971 Ocean St. #A,
Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis
Obispo County. Gaudencio Delrosario (1971 Ocean St. #A,
Oceano, CA 93445). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Gaudencio Delrosario.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-15-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 0115-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0171
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/17/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, LOVE DAVID & GINA,
3280 Ocean Blvd. Unit B, Cayucos, CA 93430. San Luis Obispo
County. David Joel Jones, Regina
Faranda (3280 Ocean Blvd. Unit
B, Cayucos, CA 93430). This
business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ David Joel Jones.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-17-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. S. King, Deputy. Exp. 0117-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0145
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/15/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, CITY FARM SLO,
1221 Calle Joaquin, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis
Obispo County. Central Coast
AG Network (1221 Calle Joaquin,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This
business is conducted by A CA
Corporation /s/ Central Coast AG
Network, Steven Marx, President.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 01-15-19. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy. Exp.
01-15-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2019-0147
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/25/2014)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, POLYPAY, 3592
Sacramento Drive, Suite 170,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San
Luis Obispo County. JCB CCA,
LLC (3592 Sacramento Drive,
Suite 170, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ JCB CCA, LLC, Jamie
Barlett, Manager. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-16-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy,
Deputy. Exp. 01-16-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT

Notice of Sheriff’s Sale of Real Property (CCP 701.540)
PLAINTIFF/PETITIONER: Sandstone Melon Company, Inc., fka Sandstone Marketing, Inc.
DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT: Warren Felger and Forrest Felger
COURT CASE NUMBER: 12CECG01891 • LEVYING OFFICER FILE NUMBER: 2018001262 • DATE: 01/10/2019
Under a Writ of Execution Issued out of the above court on 05/31/2018, on the Judgment rendered on 12/03/2015.
For the sum of $475,465.37; I have levied upon all the rights, title, and interest of the judgment debtor(s),
Warren Felger, Forrest Felger
In the real property, in the county of San Luis Obispo, described as follows: 249 Sandercock Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
APN/Parcel ID(s): 003-723-034
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
PARCEL A: Parcel 4 of Parcel Map SLO 07-0031, in the City of San Luis Obispo, County of San Luis Obispo, State of California,
according to map recorded December 5, 2007 in Book 70, Pages 22 and 23 of Parcel Maps, in the Office of the County
Recorder of said County.
PARCEL B: Easements for access, ingress, egress, utilities, drainage, parking and incidental purposes as contained in the
Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions, recorded December 5, 2007 as instrument no. 2007-078254, of Official
Records.
249 Sandercock Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Minimum Bid Amount (if applicable): $0.00
PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS SHOULD REFER TO SECTIONS 701.510 to 701.680, INCLUSIVE, OF THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
FOR PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE TERMS, CONDITIONS, AND EFFECT OF THE SALE AND THE LIABILITY OF DEFAULTING
BIDDERS.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash in lawful money
of the United States, all the rights, title, and interest of said judgment debtor(s) in the above described property, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to satisfy said execution, with accrued interest and costs on:
2/14/2019 at 9:00am in San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Civil Office, located at 1050 Monterey Street, Room 236, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93408
Directions to the property location can be obtained from the levying officer upon oral or written request.
Ian S. Parkinson, Sheriff /s/ T. Rudman, Sheriff’s Authorized Agent
LIENS MAY BE PRESENT WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT SURVIVIE THIS LEVY.
Attorney for Petitioner: Thornton Law Group, P.C., 1725 N Fine Ave., Fresno, CA 93727-1616
January 24, 31, & February 7, 2019
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FILE NO. 2019-0160
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/17/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, SERONDA SENIOR
SERVICES, 157 Mindoro Street,
Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis
Obispo County. Ke Kai C Kealoha
(157 Mindoro Street, Morro Bay,
CA 93442). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Ke
Kai C Kealoha, Individual (Sole
Propriertor). This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 01-17-19. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in
my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong,
County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy.
Exp. 01-17-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

FILE NO. 2019-0178
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/18/2019)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as, DRONESLO, 3946
Carissa Ct., San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Steven Michael Conroy (3946
Carissa Ct., San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Steven
Conroy, Owner. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 01-18-19.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey,
Deputy. Exp. 01-18-24.
January 24, 31, February 7, &
14, 2019

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and
persons who may otherwise be
interested in the will or estate, or
both, of: ANGELLA INEZ JAMES
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has
been filed by LISA A. WILSON in
the Superior Court of California,
County of San Luis Obispo.
The Petition for Probate requests
that LISA A. WILSON be appointed
as personal representative to
administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any,
be admitted to probate. The will
and any codicils are available for
examination in the file kept by the
court.
THE PETITION requests authority
to administer the estate under
the Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to
take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking
certain very important actions,
however, the personal representative will be required to give notice
to interested persons unless they
have waived notice or consented

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to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority
will be granted unless an interested person files an objection
to the petition and shows good
cause why the court should not
grant the authority.
A HEARING on the
petition will be held in this court as
follows: February 5, 2019 at 9:00
a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court
of California, County of San Luis
Obispo, located at 1035 Palm St.,
Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA
93408.
IF YOU OBJECT to
the granting of the petition, you
should appear at the hearing
and state your objections or file
written objections with the court
before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your
attorney.
IF YOU ARE A
CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must
file your claim with the court
and mail a copy to the personal
representative appointed by the
court within the later of either
(1) four months from the date
of first issuance of letters to a
general personal representative,
as defined in section 58(b) of the
California Probate Code, or (2) 60
days from the date of mailing or
personal delivery to you of notice
under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California
statutes and legal authority may
affect your rights as a creditor.
You may want to consult with an
attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE
the file kept by the court. If you
are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a
formal Request for Special Notice
(form DE-154) of the filing of an
inventory and appraisal of estate
assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate
Code section 1250. A Request
for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Petitioner:
Lisa A. Wilson
4105 Del Rio Road
Atascadero, CA 93422
January 10, 17, & 24, 2019

NOTICE OF PUBLIC
SALE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below
to enforce a lien imposed on said
property pursuant to Sections
21700-21716 of the Business &
Professions Code, Section 2328
of the UCC. Section 535 of the
Penal Code and provisions of the
Civil Code.
The undersigned is hereby given
notice that a public lien sale of the
following personal property will be
held online at storageauctions.net
and will end at the hour of 1 PM
on the 31st Day of January, 2019
where said property has been
stored and which are located at:
Traffic Way Storage, 5395 Traffic
Way, Atascadero, CA 93422
County of San Luis Obispo, State
of California, the following
Karen Adams
Rugs, lamps,
boxes

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below
to enforce a lien imposed on said
property pursuant to Sections
21700-21716 of the Business &
Professions Code, Section 2328
of the UCC. Section 535 of the
Penal Code and provisions of the
Civil Code.
The undersigned is hereby given
notice that a public lien sale of the
following personal property will be
held online at storageauctions.net
and will end at the hour of 11 AM
on the 31st Day of January, 2019

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST,
DATED 7/17/2007. UNLESS YOU
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT
A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN
EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE
OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST
YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT
A LAWYER On 2/12/2019
at 11:00 AM, CLEAR RECON
CORP, as duly appointed trustee
under and pursuant to Deed of
Trust recorded 7/24/2007, as
Instrument No. 2007050118, ,
of Official Records in the office
of the County Recorder of San
Luis Obispo County, State of
CALIFORNIA executed by: JOHN
H. MACDONALD AND KARRY E.
MACDONALD HUSBAND AND
WIFE, AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION
TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH,
CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON
A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A
CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR
FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A
CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR
FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK
SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102
OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND
AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS
IN THIS STATE: IN THE BREEZEWAY ADJACENT TO THE COUNTY
GENERAL SERVICES BUILDING,
1087 SANTA ROSA STREET, SAN
LUIS OBISPO, CA 93408 all right,
title and interest conveyed to and
now held by it under said Deed of
Trust in the property situated in
said County and State described
as: MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON
SAID DEED OF TRUST The street
address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported
to be: 2813 SANTA BARBARA AVE
CAYUCOS, CA 93430 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any
liability for any incorrectness of
the street address and other common designation, if any, shown
herein. Said sale will be held, but
without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title,
possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges
and expenses of the Trustee and
of the trusts created by said Deed
of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured
by said Deed of Trust. The total
amount of the unpaid balance
of the obligation secured by the
property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses
and advances at the time of the
initial publication of the Notice
of Sale is: $563,332.75 If the
Trustee is unable to convey title
for any reason, the successful
bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the
successful bidder shall have no
further recourse. The beneficiary
under said Deed of Trust hereto-

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fore executed and delivered to the
undersigned a written Declaration
of Default and Demand for Sale,
and a written Notice of Default
and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused
said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the
county where the real property is
located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL
BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien,
you should understand that there
are risks involved in bidding at a
trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property
itself. Placing the highest bid at
a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and
clear ownership of the property.
You should also be aware that the
lien being auctioned off may be a
junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or
may be responsible for paying
off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of
outstanding liens that may exist
on this property by contacting
the county recorder’s office or a
title insurance company, either of
which may charge you a fee for
this information. If you consult
either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same
lender may hold more than one
mortgage or deed of trust on the
property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER: The sale date shown
on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times
by the mortgagee, beneficiary,
trustee, or a court, pursuant to
Section 2924g of the California
Civil Code. The law requires that
information about trustee sale
postponements be made available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present
at the sale. If you wish to learn
whether your sale date has been
postponed, and, if applicable, the
rescheduled time and date for the
sale of this property, you may call
(844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number
assigned to this case 074179CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time
to the scheduled sale may not
immediately be reflected in the
telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information
is to attend the scheduled sale.
FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844)
477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP
4375 Jutland Drive San Diego,
California 92117.
January 17, 24, & 31, 2019.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE
T.S. NO. 072708-CA
APN: 064-425-005

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST,
DATED 3/23/2006. UNLESS YOU
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT
A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN
EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE
OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST
YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A
LAWYER On 2/5/2019 at 11:00
AM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as
duly appointed trustee under
and pursuant to Deed of Trust
recorded 3/30/2006, as Instrument No. 2006021924, , of
Official Records in the office of
the County Recorder of San Luis
Obispo County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: KATHLEEN
ANN HOLMES, AN UNMARRIED
WOMAN WILL SELL AT PUBLIC
AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER
FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK
DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN
BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT
UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY
A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS
BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION
5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE
AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: IN THE
BREEZEWAY ADJACENT TO THE
COUNTY GENERAL SERVICES
BUILDING, 1087 SANTA ROSA
STREET, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA
93408 all right, title and interest
conveyed to and now held by it
under said Deed of Trust in the
property situated in said County
and State described as: MORE
ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID
DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property
described above is purported to
be: 58 ACACIA AVENUE CAYUCOS, CALIFORNIA 93430 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any
liability for any incorrectness of
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herein. Said sale will be held, but
without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title,
possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges
and expenses of the Trustee and
of the trusts created by said Deed
of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured
by said Deed of Trust. The total
amount of the unpaid balance
of the obligation secured by the
property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses
and advances at the time of the
initial publication of the Notice
of Sale is: $745,497.86 If the
Trustee is unable to convey title
for any reason, the successful
bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the
successful bidder shall have no
further recourse. The beneficiary
under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the
undersigned a written Declaration
of Default and Demand for Sale,
and a written Notice of Default
and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused
said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the
county where the real property is
located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL
BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien,
you should understand that there
are risks involved in bidding at a
trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property
itself. Placing the highest bid at
a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and
clear ownership of the property.
You should also be aware that the
lien being auctioned off may be a
junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or
may be responsible for paying
off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of
outstanding liens that may exist
on this property by contacting
the county recorder’s office or a
title insurance company, either of
which may charge you a fee for
this information. If you consult
either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same
lender may hold more than one
mortgage or deed of trust on the
property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER: The sale date shown
on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times
by the mortgagee, beneficiary,
trustee, or a court, pursuant to
Section 2924g of the California
Civil Code. The law requires that
information about trustee sale
postponements be made available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present
at the sale. If you wish to learn
whether your sale date has been
postponed, and, if applicable, the
rescheduled time and date for the
sale of this property, you may call
(844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number
assigned to this case 072708CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time
to the scheduled sale may not
immediately be reflected in the
telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information
is to attend the scheduled sale.
FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844)
477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP
4375 Jutland Drive San Diego,
California 92117.
January 10, 17, & 24, 2019

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE
T.S. NO. 074330-CA
APN: 065-221-018

T.S. No. 074330-CA APN: 065221-018 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE
IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF
TRUST, DATED 2/9/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO
PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT
MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE.
IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION
OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU
SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER
On 1/30/2019 at 11:00 AM,
CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly
appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded
2/24/2006, as Instrument No.
2006013121, , of Official Records in the office of the County
Recorder of San Luis Obispo
County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: MICHAEL I LINE, A SINGLE MAN WILL SELL AT PUBLIC
AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER
FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK
DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN
BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT
UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY
A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS

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AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS
BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION
5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE
AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: In the
breezeway adjacent to the County
General Services Building located
at 1087 Santa Rosa St., San Luis
Obispo, CA 93408 all right, title
and interest conveyed to and now
held by it under said Deed of Trust
in the property situated in said
County and State described as:
LOT 8 IN BLOCK 2 OF TRACT NO.
81, IN THE CITY OF MORRO BAY,
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ACCORDING TO MAP RECORDED APRIL
28, 1958 IN BOOK 5 AT PAGE
111 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY. The street address and
other common designation, if any,
of the real property described
above is purported to be: 3051
SANDALWOOD AVENUE MORRO
BAY, CA 93442 The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability for
any incorrectness of the street
address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.
Said sale will be held, but without
covenant or warranty, express
or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges
and expenses of the Trustee and
of the trusts created by said Deed
of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured
by said Deed of Trust. The total
amount of the unpaid balance
of the obligation secured by the
property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses
and advances at the time of the
initial publication of the Notice
of Sale is: $762,531.30 If the
Trustee is unable to convey title
for any reason, the successful
bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the
successful bidder shall have no
further recourse. The beneficiary
under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the
undersigned a written Declaration
of Default and Demand for Sale,
and a written Notice of Default
and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused
said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the
county where the real property is
located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL
BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien,
you should understand that there
are risks involved in bidding at a
trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property
itself. Placing the highest bid at
a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and
clear ownership of the property.
You should also be aware that the
lien being auctioned off may be a
junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or
may be responsible for paying
off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of
outstanding liens that may exist
on this property by contacting
the county recorder’s office or a
title insurance company, either of
which may charge you a fee for
this information. If you consult
either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same
lender may hold more than one
mortgage or deed of trust on the
property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER: The sale date shown
on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times
by the mortgagee, beneficiary,
trustee, or a court, pursuant to
Section 2924g of the California
Civil Code. The law requires that
information about trustee sale
postponements be made available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present
at the sale. If you wish to learn
whether your sale date has been
postponed, and, if applicable,
the rescheduled time and date
for the sale of this property, you
may call 1-866-539-4173 or visit
this Internet Web site WWW.SERVICELINKAUCTION.COM,
using
the file number assigned to this
case 074330-CA. Information
about postponements that are
very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.
The best way to verify postponement information is to attend
the scheduled sale. FOR SALES
INFORMATION: 1-866-539-4173
CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California
92117.
January 10, 17, & 24, 2019.

for the week of Jan. 24

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STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT
OF USE OF
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS
NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2019-0077
OLD FILE NO. 2017-2747
Cordate Cellars, 695 Clarion
Court, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.
San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to
above was filed in San Luis Obispo
County on 11-14-2017. The following person has abandoned the use
of the fictitious business name: Sarita Bonita LLC (695 Clarion Court,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This
business was conducted by A Limited Liability Company /s/ Deron
T. Brewer, Managing Member. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 01-092019. I hereby certify that this copy
is a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Gong, County Clerk. By L. Orellana,
Deputy Clerk.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT
OF USE OF
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS
NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2019-0100
OLD FILE NO. 2014-1426
Associated Traffic Safety, 13020
Atascadero Road, Atascadero, CA
93422. San Luis Obispo County.
The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis
Obispo County on 06-25-2014. The
following person has abandoned
the use of the fictitious business
name: Kellie Avila Construction
Services Inc. (13020 Atascadero
Road, Atascadero, CA 93422). This
business was conducted by A Corporation /s/ Kellie Avila, President.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on
01-10-2019. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By N.
Balseiro, Deputy Clerk.
January 17, 24, 31, & February 7,
2019

STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT
OF USE OF
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS
NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2019-0138
OLD FILE NO. 2017-2659
Stellar Vision, Raymond & Associates, Gateway Gazette, 860 Jessica Pl., Nipomo, CA 93444. San
Luis Obispo County. The fictitious
business name referred to above
was filed in San Luis Obispo County
on 11-06-2017. The following person has abandoned the use of the
fictitious business name: Stellar Vision Inc (860 Jessica Pl., Nipomo,
CA 93444). This business was conducted by A Corporation /s/ Stellar
Vision Inc, Ruby Boulton-Raymond,
President. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 01-15-2019. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, County
Clerk. By S. King, Deputy Clerk.
January 24, 31, February 7, & 14,
2019

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Rob Brezsny’s
Free Will Astrology
Homework: Write yourself a nice long love letter full of praise and appreciation.
Send a copy to me if you like: freewillastrology.com.

ARIES

LIBRA

(March 21-April 19): We might initially be inclined to ridicule
Stuart Kettell, a British man who spent four days pushing a
Brussels sprout up 3,560-foot-high Mount Snowden with his
nose. But perhaps our opinion would become more expansive
once we knew that he engaged in this stunt to raise money
for a charity that supports people with cancer. In any case,
the coming weeks would be a favorable time for you, too, to
engage in extravagant, extreme, or even outlandish behavior
on behalf of a good or holy cause.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The old Latin verb crescere meant “to
come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in
numbers or strength.” We see its presence in the modern
English, French, and Italian word “crescendo.” In accordance
with astrological omens, I have selected crescere and its
present participle crescentum to be your words of power for
the next four weeks. May they help mobilize you to seize all
emerging opportunities to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive,
swell, and increase in numbers or strength.

TAURUS

SCORPIO

(April 20-May 20): The Taurus guitar wizard known as
Buckethead is surely among the most imaginative and prolific
musicians who has ever lived. Since producing his first album
in late 2005, he has released 306 other albums that span a
wide variety of musical genres—an average of 23 per year. I
propose that we make him your patron saint for the next six
weeks. While it’s unlikely you can achieve such a gaudy level
of creative self-expression, you could very well exceed your
previous personal best in your own sphere.

GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle created
Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character who personifies
the power of logic and rational thinking. And yet Doyle
was also a devout spiritualist who pursued interests
in telepathy, the occult, and psychic phenomena. It’s
no surprise that he was a Gemini, an astrological tribe
renowned for its ability to embody apparent opposites.
Sometimes that quality is a liability for you folks, and
sometimes an asset. In the coming weeks, I believe it’ll
be a highly useful skill. Your knack for holding paradoxical
views and expressing seemingly contradictory powers will
attract and generate good fortune.

CANCER
(June 21-July 22): In 2006, a 176-year-old tortoise named
Harriet died in an Australian zoo owned by “Crocodile
Hunter” and TV personality Steve Irwin. Harriet was
far from her original home in the Galapagos Islands. By
some accounts, evolutionary superstar Charles Darwin
picked her up and carried her away during his visit there
in 1835. I propose that you choose the long-lived tortoise
as your power creature for the coming weeks. With her
as inspiration, meditate on questions like these: 1. “What
would I do differently if I knew I’d live to a very old age?”
2. “What influence that was important to me when I was
young do I want to be important to me when I’m old?” 3. “In
what specific ways can my future benefit from my past?” 4.
“Is there a blessing or gift from an ancestor I have not yet
claimed?” 5. “Is there anything I can do that I am not yet
doing to remain in good health into my old age?”

LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): John Lennon claimed that he generated
the Beatles’ song “Because” by rendering Beethoven’s
“Moonlight Sonata” backwards. Even if that’s true, I don’t
think it detracts from the beauty of “Because.” May I suggest
you adopt a comparable strategy for your own use in the
coming weeks, Leo? What could you do in reverse so as to
create an interesting novelty? What approach might you
invert in order to instigate fresh ways of doing things? Is
there an idea you could turn upside-down or inside-out,
thereby awakening yourself to a new perspective?

VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Tsonga language is spoken by more
than 15 million people in southern Africa. The literal meaning
of the Tsonga phrase I malebvu ya nghala is “It’s a lion’s
beard,” and its meaning is “something that’s not as scary
as it looks.” According to my astrological analysis, this will
be a useful concept for you to be alert for in the coming
weeks. Don’t necessarily trust first impressions or initial
apprehensions. Be open to probing deeper than your instincts
might influence you to do.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When animals hibernate, their metabolism
slows down. They may grow more underfur or feathers,
and some add extra fat. To conserve heat, they may huddle
together with each other. In the coming weeks, I don’t think
you’ll have to do what they do. But I do suspect it will be a
good time to engage in behaviors that have a resemblance to
hibernation: slowing down your mind and body; thinking deep
thoughts and feeling deep feelings; seeking extra hugs and
cuddles; getting lots of rich, warm, satisfying food and sleep.
What else might appeal to your need to drop out of your fastpaced rhythm and supercharge your psychic batteries?

SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When people tell me they don’t have time
to read the books I’ve written, I advise them to place the books
under their pillows and soak up my words in their dreams. I
don’t suggest that they actually eat the pages, although there
is historical precedent for that. The Bible describes the prophet
Ezekiel as literally chewing and swallowing a book. And there
are accounts of 16th-century Austrian soldiers devouring books
they acquired during their conquests, hoping to absorb the
contents of the texts. But in accordance with current astrological
omens, I suggest that in the next four weeks you acquire the
wisdom stored in books by actually reading them or listening to
them on audio recordings. In my astrological opinion, you really
do need, for the sake of your psychospiritual health, to absorb
writing that requires extended concentration.

CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Among the top “how to” search inquiries
on Google are “how to buy Bitcoin,” “how to lose belly fat
fast,” “how to cook spaghetti in a microwave,” and “how to
make slime.” While I do think that the coming weeks will be
prime time for you to formulate and launch many “how to”
investigations, I will encourage you to put more important
questions at the top of your priority list. “How to get richer
quicker” would be a good one, as would “how to follow
through on good beginnings” and “how to enhance your
value” and “how to identify what resources and allies will be
most important in 2019.”

AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A motivational speaker and author named
Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, although he has two
small, unusually shaped feet. These facts didn’t stop him from
getting married, raising a family of four children, and writing
eight books. One book is titled Life Without Limits: Inspiration
for a Ridiculously Good Life. He’s a positive guy who has faith
in the possibility of miracles. In fact, he says he keeps a pair of
shoes in his closet just in case God decides to bless him with
a marvelous surprise. In accordance with current astrological
omens, Aquarius, I suggest you make a similar gesture. Create or
acquire a symbol of an amazing transformation you would love
to attract into your life.

PISCES
(Feb. 19-March 20): About 11 percent of the Philippines’
population is composed of Muslims who call themselves
the Bangsamoro. Many resist being part of the Philippines
and want their own sovereign nation. They have a lot of
experience struggling for independence, as they’ve spent
400 years rebelling against occupation by foreign powers,
including Spain, the United States, and Japan. I admire their
tenacity in seeking total freedom to be themselves and rule
themselves. May they inspire your efforts to do the same on
a personal level in the coming year. ∆

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